Political Quotes

“I would suggest that we need more jobs and less speeches. And what we will get from this bill on the floor is more speeches and no jobs. It is very disappointing in the current economic context that what we bring to the floor for 9\1/2\ hours is a bill that simply instructs the committees to do what we've already instructed them to do. This is already in the rules, it's already required, we all agree on it. What are we doing here wasting 9\1/2\ hours? If we just produced a thousand jobs an hour, we could have produced 9,500 jobs. Instead, we're going to produce 95 speeches. That's not what we need. If you want to look for waste in government, take a look at this bill: 9\1/2\ hours down the tube doing something we're already doing. We had a hearing yesterday in the Commerce Committee. We're already talking about these regulations. But let me give a warning to people about what happens when the Republican Party wants to look at regulations. You know the first thing they did, they're trying to repeal the Clean Air Act. They're trying to gut the Clean Air Act which is the guardian angel for the air that our kids breathe. {time} 1250 You know, they have introduced a bill, and we had a hearing yesterday. The first hearing we had was to pass their dirty air act.…”