Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank Congressman Newhouse for leading the effort on this. And I rise to oppose the Green New Deal for many of the reasons that have already been said, but this is the most amateurish resolution that has come before this Congress in a long time, not from only my point of view but many others who have served longer than I have. We were asked to consider a policy that would change every aspect of American life, deciding what we eat, how we travel, how we stay warm, and even what jobs we can take and what homes we are allowed to live in. We are presented with a total overhaul of society, but with no explanation how. There is no roadmap, no method of implementation, and, of course, no price tag. All we know is that this will be dictated by a cabal of better-knowing bureaucrats. Yet every estimate shows just how unrealistic this green deal really is. According to the American Action Forum, the total cost could run as high as $93 trillion over 10 years. {time} 2045 This totals 21 times our current Federal budget of $4.4 trillion. That can only mean one thing for the American people: taxes, taxes, and more taxes. This resolution is so lacking in detail, we might as well vote on the merits of a scrap of paper that says, ``solve the problem.'' This is no way to govern. The only details we do have are from a survey that enjoyed a brief existence online before it was removed out of embarrassment and has since been denied.…”