Political Quotes

“Mr. Norwood said some things change in 25 years, and he is right about it. One thing that has not changed in 25 years is that people say one thing and have a different agenda. We have heard all day that we are opposed to unfunded mandates, and now we want to put a new mandate on the Department of Justice with no new money. We have heard, when Mr. Westmoreland writes about this topic in the pages of The Hill, that he wants to lift the South from the whims of Federal bureaucrats, and this amendment would empower the bureaucrats of the Department of Justice more than ever. We heard his remarks, again on this amendment, by saying, I want to save the Voting Rights Act; and then he proposes to save it by making it harder to administer, more subject to judicial challenge, and far more complicated. It has not changed. People say one thing and have another agenda. I close by saying the agenda today appears to be to water down this act and strip it of a lot of its power, and that is wrong.”