Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I yield myself the balance of my time. This House has passed close to 200 bills that are piled up in the United States Senate that create jobs, that promote domestic energy production, that reform our out-of-control Federal regulatory process in this country, but it is also well worth taking our time to protect this institution's prerogatives and the people. Here in the people's House, we represent the interests of the people of this country, and to uphold the powers, the article I powers of the House, is vitally important. The Constitution provides that ``all legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States.'' Yet, the current administration has unilaterally sought to rewrite the law, not by working with the people's elected representatives, but through: blog posts like this one, which removes penalties for employers who would otherwise be required to provide insurance coverage for their employees; regulatory ``fact sheets'' like this one, which creates an entirely new category of businesses and exempts them from their responsibility under the law; letters such as this one, which acknowledges that people are having their health insurance terminated under ObamaCare, in violation of the President's promise that ``if you like your health care plan, you can keep it,'' and then claims to suspend the law's insurance requirement to a date uncertain.…”