Political Quotes

“I appreciate the gentleman's comments. It is very important that we try to find ways to try to work together when the form of this bill that we worked on in the committee last year, which is almost identical to the one that we adopted this year, was before the Natural Resources Committee. In Mr. DeFazio's opening statement, he said: Thank you, Chairman, and I appreciate the changes that were negotiated on a number of provisions in the bill. Then he said: This has been traditionally a very bipartisan exercise, and this is, in good part, bipartisan. Mr. Pallone, same time, his opening statement in the committee last year on a virtually identical bill was: I do want to say that I do appreciate the fact that you reach out to us on the Democratic side of the aisle; and many of the provisions, as you mentioned, that are in the bill did come from input from the Democratic side. The gentleman referenced the substitute: The substitute has been made in order and has given more time than anything else for us to debate. We have really leaned over backwards, particularly when you consider that the majority of amendments that we have made in order in this rule are amendments offered by the Democrats.…”