Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 30 seconds. Mr. Speaker, it is hard to keep up with all the misstatements about this bill, but I am going to try. The immediate past speaker on the other side talked about the cost of the bill; and I am sure he didn't do it intentionally, but he was using a 2-year-out-of-date cost. We have an email from the CBO as of this past Monday that says the CBO estimates this legislation would not affect direct spending or revenues, so there is no cost, despite what Members might hear otherwise. Also, it is just hard for me to understand how any Member of Congress could oppose open and honest government. All this bill does is to say that the data has to be transparent, the data has to be publicly available. If they want more government control, more environmental regulations that can't be justified, that is one thing; but don't oppose the bill for the wrong reasons. The bill does nothing more than require open, transparent, and honest government. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Gosar), who is a member of the Natural Resources Committee.”