Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding me the time. Madam Speaker, today's rule contains a resolution that will really fundamentally change the proceedings of this House of Representatives. Once that passes--and it will, because this House is ruled by the majority--we will then take up a $3 trillion assistance bill. It is not the first time this week that the majority Democrats have trampled on the rights of the Republican minority. Allowing multiple Members to vote by proxy does not seem like representative government. I, for one, will not give away the vote of the people of the 26th District to someone they did not elect. Governing is difficult, but we sought the jobs and we need to get back to work. Far too many American lives have been lost to the pandemic. This novel coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on our healthcare, as well as our economy. There are plenty of things we could have done in the House on the Committee on Energy and Commerce during the last several months which were undone. We passed a bill called the Pandemic All-Hazards Preparedness Act. This was a good bill, and it was signed into law in June of 2019, 6 months before the pandemic started. We could have had a realtime oversight of this bill that we had just passed in the month of February ask the questions: Is it doing what we thought? Are we achieving what we attempted to achieve with that bill? Here is a realtime test, a stress test, but we chose not to do it.…”