Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McCAUL. Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. The thing I really enjoy about the Foreign Affairs Committee, as I know the Speaker would agree with me, is that it is bipartisan. I would say that the majority of bills passed out of our committee--in fact, I would say no other committee has passed more bipartisan bills than the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, as it should be. I thank my good friend Joaquin Castro from Texas. Of course, Madam Speaker, you are from Texas. We seem to have a trifecta here today from Texas. But I will say Chairman Engel has been a great partner to me, working together as a chairman and ranking member should on a national security committee. We should put the interests of the Nation above partisan politics, and that has been our charge and our duty. I am, quite frankly, proud to say that is how we have conducted ourselves in this Congress. It is very gratifying, Madam Speaker, to close out this session of Congress, before this very tumultuous election cycle and very divisive time in our politics and our American history, but for me to be able to close this out in a very bipartisan way, that, I think, is what most Americans out there want from their leaders in the Congress. I thank the gentleman from Texas and the Speaker from Texas for your bipartisan support. I urge my colleagues to support this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.”