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# House Republicans Prepared to "Sink the Ship"
- URL: https://ivn.us/house-republicans-prepared-sink-ship/
- Published: 2012-06-21T18:49:03.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-22T19:26:14.000Z
- Author: Kymberly Bays
- Tags: News

[Talking Points Memo ]("There's no intention on behalf of the Republicans in the House of Representatives to try to help the president move this country forward," Hoyer told a small group of reporters in his Capitol office on Thursday morning. "I quote Jesse Jackson, who I thought said it best, there are a lot people in Washington who want to drown the captain and are prepared to sink the ship in order to do so.")has House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer's quote today on Congressional dysfunction:

> *"There's no intention on behalf of the Republicans in the House of Representatives to try to help the president move this country forward. I quote Jesse Jackson, who I thought said it best, there are a lot people in Washington who want to drown the captain and are prepared to sink the ship in order to do so."*