Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Bills brought before the House, the majority gets to direct which bills are brought up and which are not brought up, and with all due respect to Mr. Murphy, a great Member of Congress, this is a wonderful race course--I know there are many Americans that enjoy horse racing-- but candidly, I struggle to go through this and understand why on the floor of the House of Representatives that this seems to rise to the level of recognition. We have so many problems and challenges facing this country, so many issues that we could and should be debating. We should be debating a budget, for instance, which is not being brought before this body. We should be talking about the debt and the deficit and those other things that are going to affect every Americans' life. And I recognize that there are times when we need to step up and recognize some truly worthy accomplishments, and we honor and name post offices and whatnot, but when it comes to the world of sport, I continue to voice my opposition that this is the time and the place to actually have a ``debate'' about whether or not the 142nd season is worthy of recognition in a resolution from the House of Representatives. Mr. Speaker, I'm sure there are some young kids that are here. They're going to go back and talk about their time at the House of Representatives, and they're here in the audience.…”