Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. With that mask, it is a lot easier to do that, too. I appreciate the offer to be involved in this lameduck session here today. It is one of those things that you have to take in some kind of stride. One assumes that if you are coming back here for a lameduck session, there are major issues that need to be done before we actually go back and the next session of Congress can actually take up. Although, I do remember the first time I was elected here, we were voting in January on the budget from the last session of Congress that they had failed to do. But in all of that, we look at the things that are still before us today, and they are huge issues: what we are going to do with the coronavirus, funding to help with that problem, national defense authorization still yet having to be done, appropriations bills still yet to be passed. Instead of dealing with those this week, we find ourselves here with these suspensions, most of which will not have a chance of actually going all the way through the system. Many of them should start over again and be done separately. But, at any rate, this is what we have been called back to do. The Germans had a good word for it: kleinigkeiten. It is those little things. It is not the major issues of the day. It is the small stuff. Now, admittedly, kleinigkeiten, those little things, sometimes can enable one to get a victory and they can also cause a problem that stops one from success.…”