Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I yield myself the balance of my time. I just, again, want to emphasize how important this piece of legislation is, and the work that goes into it. And all the Members have said this is the way legislation is supposed to work. It really does work when you do the legislative process, when you have committee hearings and you debate amendments and you put together a product. And also to remind folks how important this piece of legislation is. It funds and supports our military in providing for the national security of this country. It is critically important that we pass it and get it done. I do also, however, want to emphasize the point that Mr. Andrews made, and that is that, unfortunately, unless we do something about sequestration, this bill is going to be largely undone. Taking $50 billion out of this budget in a meat-ax fashion will not be helpful. We have to do something about sequestration if we're going to be able to protect this process. So I would urge the full body to follow the example of the Armed Services Committee: get together, work out a bipartisan solution to make sure that we can protect this work and not just the national security. Sequestration obviously affects all parts of government in a very, very negative way; infrastructure, education, health care all jeopardized by the sequestration legislation. So I would urge us to deal with that.…”