Political Quotes

“Let me take this moment to thank the chairman of the subcommittee, Mr. Wolf, for his longstanding service and commitment to so many issues that so many of us have worked on for such a very long period of time, helping the most vulnerable and helping those who often cannot help themselves. Let me associate myself with the remarks that have been made by the author of this amendment, and also the ranking member, Mr. Fattah, who spoke to the question of justice. Mr. Chairman, I have served on the reiterations of the Legal Services Corporation in my own community way before coming to the United States Congress. I am reminded of the early words of the Constitution that said that we organize to create a more perfect union. Then I matched that with our Bill of Rights that so many people, if they cannot recite all of them, they know issues like due process, right to a trial by jury, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of access and movement. All of those things are deprived to persons in many instances who cannot access the courts. I remember, in particular, my Gulfcoast Legal Services Corporation, which worked extensively on issues dealing with housing, for good hardworking people sometimes come up against a brick wall, a hard wall, where they have done everything they could but they are facing eviction, they have come upon difficulty.…”