Political Quotes

“Despite our President's promises to end the partisan tenor in Washington, our congressional Republicans continue to use the same old tactics. This does not match the procedure the President stated as his goal. For the last 2 days, Congress has debated two extremely divisive issues. Yesterday, after 1 hour, we undid job-safety standards we had been working on for 10 years; and today we are considering a tax bill that could wipe out the current surplus and our effort to reduce our $5 trillion national debt. What is worse, we are doing this without a budget. We do not know what else we are doing with the people's money. We do not have any contingency funds. We are just racing around this process with the hope that when we are finished we will still have some money left over. We should have a budget in place before we start either spending or cutting revenue. We need to protect Medicare, Social Security, we need to pay down the debt, and we need to make sure there is money for our children's education, health care costs and energy bills. We can cut taxes, but we need to look at it responsibly, Mr. Speaker.”