Political Quotes

“Thank you so very much. I wanted to make sure it wasn't 5 minutes. Let me thank the gentleman again from California. I want to thank him overall for a litany of causes and legislative efforts that I've joined him on--Make It In America and a number of others. I am so glad that he has come to the floor today to be able to recount for the American people just what we have gone through. I want to start where he started because I've heard a number of my colleagues who are here on the floor--Congressman Honda, Congresswoman Kaptur--speak eloquently about their work on the Appropriations Committee and of the wall--the mountain--that they had to climb with a compromise that many Democrats voted for and that the President signed, which was the sequestration that was created to avoid a shutdown some years ago. The numbers were so odious that it was thought that we would bring the Republicans to the table in a consensus group. I'd hoped the American people would recognize that they would be surprised to find out that those odious numbers were not even enough, that it didn't bring them to the table. In fact, what it did is cause them to hunker down--to want more cuts, more damage to the American people--which is where we find ourselves today.…”