Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, the American people have waited too long for relief for us to delay in the face of this procedural motion. Now is the time for action, not parliamentary gimmicks. We are 7 years into the Obama administration. Real unemployment is still a massive problem. America's labor force participation is still near record lows, yet instead of helping by getting out of the way, the Obama administration and Washington's entrenched regulatory bureaucracy day after day pile new burden after new burden on the backs of workers, American families, and small-business owners. The total cost of Federal regulations is poised to zoom past $2 trillion per year as the Obama administration furiously works to get out the door all the regulations it can in its last year in office. If that $2 trillion were a nation's economy, it would be one of the top 10 economies in the world. Mr. Speaker, the Investor's Business Daily reports that we have just concluded 8 years of zero real wage growth for America's workers and families. That means zero wage growth for the entire Obama administration. What about jobs? We would have created almost 6 million more jobs if the so-called Obama recovery had just been as strong as the average recovery since World War II. America's workers and families cannot afford for Washington to continue to sacrifice the Nation's prosperity and ability to generate jobs so the regulatory bureaucracy can expand into every nook and cranny of our lives.…”