Aftermath Quote by Cedric Richmond

I think this is exactly where the action is, is in the middle. I have seen it when I was governor of the state…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and…

— Mitt Romney

We deeply regret that some Senators are still willing to do Big Oil?s bidding, and we now turn to the House where the Arctic…

— Carl Pope

Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just…

— Paul Ryan

A true relief effort for hurricane victims is not a partisan issue. However, in Washington we are notorious for making our jobs far more…

— Mark Meadows

Congressional Republicans have come to understand that their last, best hope of blocking bad policy from the White House is through spending bills.

— Mark Meadows

My Republican colleagues say, Let's do the cuts first. The Democrats say, Let's do spending first. I'd like to do both simultaneously.

— Scott Rigell

That is what happened in 2010. The administration and the leadership of the Republicans thought, 'Well, we're making a deal together; we're showing the…

— Austan Goolsbee

I know we can find a bipartisan response to pressing challenges - like repairing, modernizing and adding to the infrastructure on which we all…

— Amy Klobuchar

It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending…

— Anonymous

Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.

— Jared Polis

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes…

— Claire McCaskill