Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, we had a colleague several years ago, Jim McDermott from Washington State, a Democrat. The Republicans were in the majority. Republicans, during the week of April 15, wanted to put forward a bill on the floor of the House but didn't quite have it together, so they put together a sense of Congress resolution on fundamental tax reform. {time} 1245 I will never forget Dr. McDermott in the well of the House, thundering against Republicans: You want tax reform, and this is the best you can do, a sense of Congress resolution? Why don't you just send a get-well card to the IRS? Madam Speaker, let me tell you something: Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee have been agitating, asking, and trying to work with Federal agencies to get answers on the origin of the coronavirus and answers on the origin of the pandemic. So, here we have the China bill before us today, ironically, on Groundhog's Day, but here is the China bill, and by golly, we are going to get to the bottom of the coronavirus pandemic. What do we get? We get section 30219B, ``Report on origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.'' Now, what does the next line say? ``Sense of Congress. It is the sense of Congress that,'' blah, blah, blah. In other words, no force of law, no teeth, no requirement of any Federal agency to do anything, no requirement really for even a real investigation, which is what honestly we need.…”