Political Quotes

“Let me thank the gentleman for his courtesies and look at this in a somewhat unique fashion to speak to the pending crisis and to join with my colleagues, and particularly in following the chairwoman, Congresswoman Fudge, and thanking her for setting the tone of the interests of the Congressional Black Caucus to be collaborative and to be problem solvers. Let me thank the distinguished gentleman from New York (Mr. Jeffries) for his timeliness in bringing us to the floor tonight and the gentleman from Nevada (Mr. Horsford) for recognizing the vital importance of speaking to the American people and certainly to our colleagues. I do want to offer to my colleagues a legislative initiative that I hope all of my friends--Republicans and Democrats--will join in sponsoring, H. Res. 375, which commits this House to refraining from conditioning the resolution of fiscal and budgetary disputes on the taking of action related to nongermane legislative matters. As I listened to my friends on the other side of the aisle, one person sought to refute the representation that all of us have made, which is that we have never been in a position to hold hostage the whole budgeting process through the idea of a legislative fight, and I would beg to differ on the interpretation of my Republican friends that that has occurred.…”