Political Quotes

“I use the word ``testimony'' for a very important purpose because the Reid amendment has had no testimony, not 1 minute of committee examination or Member examination beyond its presence here on the floor as it freshly appeared last week. I appeared on the floor yesterday in debate in opposition to the amendment, and I brought with me a stack of documents that covered this desk and nearly reached the top of this podium, some 3,000 pages of testimony of both positive and negative critique of this amendment, the Simon-Hatch-Craig-Thurmond amendment, which I think, in all fairness, in reality deserves to be called the real amendment versus the Reid amendment. Yesterday during that give and take between Senator Reid and myself I offered him 34 questions about his amendment that I submitted to the Record that clearly deserved to be answered. I hope they can be answered today. I hope they can become part of the Record.”