Political Quotes

“I appreciate the gentleman from Oklahoma leading, not just this exercise on behalf of the Rules Committee, but actually on behalf of the Appropriations Committee. The Rules Committee, I know that the gentlewoman, Louise Slaughter, and I have great confidence, not only in Tom's leadership, but really his insight into what needs to be done. And, Tom, I want to thank you for your strong leadership in this endeavor on behalf of the Appropriations Committee, as well as the Rules Committee. Mr. Speaker, today what I'd like to do is take just a minute, if I can, and kind of reset where we are. We've had lots of debate today about what we're doing and why we're doing this. But the bottom line is that our Speaker, John Boehner; our majority leader, Eric Cantor; and the minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, understand that we must approach a national disaster such as a superstorm together. And as a body, whether it was Nita Lowey, whether it was Jon Runyan, Rodney Frelinghuysen, Chris Smith, Michael Grimm, Frank LoBiondo, we, as a body, understood we had a job to do.…”