Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding and for taking the leadership role and putting this hour together, and joining my fellow freshman Members on the floor of the House to talk about the number one issue of the day, and that is our economy. That is jobs. {time} 1920 I come down here tonight to join my colleagues and to tell the American people that we here in the House of Representatives are going to be open and honest and will push forward an agenda that relies on the private sector being that primary engine that creates the economic environment so that people--hardworking Americans, hardworking taxpayers--have the opportunity to take care of their children for generations to come by having a good, solid job. I'm looking at the vote tally from tonight's two votes that we took just moments ago that added to the forgotten 15, the last two of the tardy 22. And look at the numbers on passage of each bill. It was 407- 17, and it was 413-11. That is almost an unbelievable percentage of bipartisan support in the House of Representatives for two bills that are going to create a stronger private sector America so that we can put people back to work. And yet we continue to engage in partisan politics in the Senate, and we don't even allow these bills to have a vote on the floor of the Senate, at least to be debated in an open and honest debate, an argument about their merits to be heard by all Americans just like we do here in the House of Representatives on the floor of the House.…”