Political Quotes

“I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleagues from the Democratic Party for coming and for, once again, offering their ideas about flood insurance. That is not part of the bill. I would simply reply to them, as I have previously, that the Senate-offered compromise or the Senate- offered language spends $900 million more but does not take care of the $24 billion problem, which is red ink that the taxpayer would pick up, which harms the solvency of the program. Why have a government program that runs in the red $24 billion and then goes to $50 billion? That is not what we are going to do. We are going to come up with an answer in the House of Representatives, and I expect it to be done quickly. Today, we are talking about the CFPB, and Americans have witnessed firsthand the negative effects of the CFPB. We have looked at how this administration and one agency cannot only gather records but literally control a marketplace. I believe that what you have heard today lends us to understand that a balance of the CFPB is what is important. We have brought five distinctly different bills to bear here, one of them saying that we should not have employees of the CFPB who are paid well outside of normal government standards, where even an intern who serves for this CFPB makes over $51,000. Mr.…”