Political Quotes

“I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, obviously, we can see that today's legislation answers the question. It ends the debate about Solyndra. Taxpayers know the committee did its work. It held a Rules Committee hearing. Half a billion dollars was lost by Solyndra. We're not down here jumping up and down. We haven't even raised our voices. We simply said that we think that a better process could have taken place, and they're arguing we never should have even had this on the floor--that we don't need any feedback, that everybody already knows. Here is what they know. We lost half a billion dollars by one company. At least two others had the same outcome where they did not produce anything. They went belly up--bankrupt. We just think that the administration--government-- is really not in the business and shouldn't be in the business--despite what we've heard--of pushing the envelope. Let's go out and invest whether it makes sense or not. Losing money is still a bad proposition. Republicans think it's a bad proposition. There have been lots of arguments today that the government did the right thing, that this administration did the right thing. I think that the facts of the case say that half a billion dollars in a process that didn't work--we need to hear the feedback, and we need to close the books on it. The rule is here to do exactly that--to place on the floor the opportunity for us to debate now the facts of the case, which is exactly what will happen.…”