Political Quotes

“On many different occasions I have come to this Chamber to point out exactly how we arrived at this moment where we are experiencing record-breaking inflation. Each time, congressional Democrats' desire to recklessly spend trillions of taxpayer dollars continues to be the answer. Here I am again, as the House prepares to vote on yet another spending bill costing hundreds of billions of dollars filled with socialist wish list items that increases Federal spending by double- digit and triple-digit percentage increases in some cases. I, of course, will vote ``no,'' not only because it increases the size of our government by increasing spending on non-defense programs by 14 percent, but because it also fails to include the Hyde amendment, which is a longstanding bipartisan agreement that protects taxpayer dollars for being used to fund abortions. Overall, the bill would increase the budget for the Environmental Protection Agency by 20 percent, increase the budget for general government activities by 17 percent, and include a 10 percent increase for the Food and Drug Administration--the very same department that botched the baby formula shortage. This funding bill rewards bad behavior by giving funding increases to departments that have failed the American people. It encourages illegal immigration.…”