Political Quotes

“Madam Chair, I ask that the gentleman's words be taken down. The Acting CHAIR (Ms. Foxx). The gentleman from Massachusetts will please take a seat. The Clerk will report the words. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. I have never seen truth stood on its head more rapidly than by my colleague from Texas. This notion that who cares about the credit--if that were honestly what the Republican leadership believed, why did they take the credit from Mr. Schweikert and Mr. Himes and give it to Mr. Quayle? It is they who decided that substance was less important. For the gentleman from Texas, having been part of the leadership that engaged in that shameful maneuver, to now accuse us of being excessively concerned with credit is the most hypocritical and dishonest statement I have heard uttered in this House. The Acting CHAIR. The Committee rises. Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. Hurt) having assumed the chair, Ms. Foxx, Acting Chair of the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, reported that that Committee, having had under consideration the bill (H.R. 3606) to increase American job creation and economic growth by improving access to the public capital markets for emerging growth companies, reported that certain words used in debate were objected to and, on request, were taken down and read at the Clerk's desk, and herewith reported the same to the House. The SPEAKER pro tempore.…”