Political Quotes

“To this body, I say enough, enough of the swamp games. The House needn't wait for the powers that be to meet in a dark room and come out and tell us what so-called deal has been cut, whether it is the Speaker, the Treasury Secretary, or anybody else. And I shouldn't have to learn what is in the bill from K Street on Twitter. Nor should the House take up a partisan $2 trillion bill with no chance of becoming law, and you know exactly that is what it is. This is the people's House. We should act like it. We should debate. We should vote. We should actually do our job and amend. To my House Democratic freshman colleagues: Your Speaker is playing political games with people's lives. We are used to it. We are used to the Speaker playing games: With immigrant's lives, shouting: kids in cages, for Obama policies rather than supporting security; Refusing to call out antifa, or refusing to come to this floor and have this body stand with our law enforcement officers--not once; Supporting Iran over Israel; Refusing to stand against the extermination of babies born alive; Seeking to destroy American oil and gas and energy freedom and cheap energy in favor of radical Green New Deal policies; Working to take away your private doctors, taking away your private insurance; and Killing 6 months of this body's time with partisan impeachment proceedings. But this is a whole other level. In June, the Heroes Act, $3 trillion in partisan hackery with no chance of passage.…”