Political Quotes

“I thank my friend from Texas for yielding. A lot of conservatives believe in conservation. For example, the Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, has expanded the Everglades more than any Governor in the history of the State because that is actual conservation--instead of the nonsense being spewed by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. When they say, oh, we do something. Let's just be clear to the American people what doing something actually is. It is giving billions of dollars of subsidies to your fat cat corporate cronies, enriching them at the expense of hardworking American families. That is the truth. Madam Speaker, 90 percent of subsidies are going to billion-dollar corporations and 80 percent of electronic vehicle subsidies are going to people making well over $100,000. That is the actual truth of what is going on. Here today we are talking about several bills. We are dealing with the fentanyl crisis, which my colleagues on the other side of the aisle refuse to address by allowing our border to be wide open, exploited by cartels, driving fentanyl into our communities on the back of the Chinese, making money doing so, and killing 72,000 Americans last year alone, including 5 children in Hays County where I live south of Austin. It is happening every single day. My colleagues don't care about securing the border. They want to hide behind the fact that they say that fentanyl comes through ports of entry.…”