Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I stand here today, again, opposing the status quo of more reckless spending in Washington. This House is supposedly run by Republicans, and yet here we are continuing to pass the Pelosi-Biden-Schumer spending levels and the policies connected to them, predictably with a majority of Democrat votes. As a matter of fact, this morning I had a Democrat Member tell me in a private conversation that he likes it when we are in charge because nothing changes, but we get the blame for it because we have the majority. Our national debt continues to skyrocket. We are at nearly $35 trillion. That is a number that is hard to grasp. It is actually more than $100,000 per citizen and that figure just grows by the day. Bidenflation is further exacerbating the crisis, and the congressional uniparty is perpetuating it on a daily basis. Thankfully, we may be getting some future relief with the just-announced resignation of the minority leader in the Senate, but some of us here in the House came here to actually represent the American people, to do what we said we would do, and we did not mean constantly kicking the can down the road, passing more continuing resolutions that hurt the American people. Many people in this body are scared of a government shutdown, and I will acknowledge that a government shutdown is not the ideal thing, but it is not the worst thing.…”