Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time to close. And I really want to close just to emphasize how important the work is that our staffs do, both in the House and the Senate. The work that they've done ever since May, when we first put together the bill on the House side, and then the accelerated time schedule that they had to operate under because the Senate waited until December 4 to pass their bill, and we had to throw together a quick conference report. There are an endless array of critically important legislative issues that are handled in this bill, and the staffs that we have do an amazing job under a tight timeline of working together to resolve differences and come up with the best legislation. We have an outstanding staff. We could not do this without them. Again I will emphasize that I hope this bill shows that it's possible that people who disagree--and you can hear from our debate there are many things we disagree strongly about, certainly Republicans and Democrats, but also House and Senate. Yet somehow we come together and put together this 1,600-page bill to spend $633 billion and provide for the common defense of the United States of America. So I urge support, and I thank all those involved in this work product. I yield back the balance of my time. Mr. McKEON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of the time. Mr.…”