Political Quotes

“I thank the distinguished gentleman, and I thank the manager of this legislation, and I thank the good intentions of our colleagues. I want to pause for a moment, Mr. Pallone, and just simply say that although these are important issues, as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, I helped draft the PATRIOT Act and business record 215, and we are now looking to constrain the collection of mega-data, and I accept the importance of privacy for the American people. But I pause for just a moment to ask my colleagues, we have enough time today to actually pass the extension of the unemployment benefits. There are 1.3 million people, 12,000 in my own community, who would like us to stay here and make sure that we get that done. I hope that my friends on the other side of the aisle will accept the challenge of Republicans putting an extension of the unemployment benefits on the floor to help unemployed Americans. But this is an important issue as well, and I do want to say that our friends have not documented any breach on personal and private data of those individuals that have accessed the Affordable Care Act, which are 9 million plus, and growing. We have had 46 votes to repeal it. Now we come one by one with legislation that has not gone through regular order. It has not gone through the committee process. It has very good intentions; but, in actuality, it may be overly burdensome because, Mr. Speaker, there is no bar.…”