Political Quotes

“I welcome my colleague from California's support for this resolution. As my colleague knows very well, we have done far more in this body, and, as he mentioned, we have done far more in this body than these resolutions of support. These resolutions of support are crucially important, but we have, in this House, completed our work. We have completed our work on the Defense Appropriations bill. Last year, the Senate also completed its work, and we were able to take the very first crucially important steps to begin to rebuild our military with the $700 billion we were able to appropriate for fiscal year 2018. We have also done our work for this fiscal year, and we will be in a position, hopefully in the next day or so, to be able to pass the National Defense Authorization Act as well for fiscal year 2019. So we in this House understand how crucially important it is that we get the work done, that we pass this legislation. We need the Senate to do the same. We also, I think, need to recognize we have fundamental disagreements and disputes about the impact of the tax cuts we passed. In fact, on this side of the aisle, we believe that allowing Americans to keep more of their money is really the secret to getting the kind of economic growth we need to fundamentally deal with the deficit, that the answer is not to raise people's taxes to have more money coming into the Treasury. We need to actually let people keep more of what they have got.…”