Political Quotes

“I rise to express my exasperation with the pending substitute amendment. The last version I have seen of it is a conglomeration of about 12 separate legislative proposals. Many of them I support. Some of them I am actively working to pass. Yet, without any notice from Members on the other side of the aisle, these proposals have been included in this substitute amendment, along with a host of other, unrelated provisions which I and other Members may or may not support. The upshot of this is that the sponsors of this substitute amendment are forcing Members to vote against proposals which they support and on which they have been working. For example, I, along with other of my colleagues, have been working to pass the Private Property Rights Act. In fact, staff are scheduled to meet tomorrow about this legislation. Yet, without any notice or warning, I find that this proposal, one which I support and am working on, has been incorporated into a controversial, killer amendment to S. 4. Likewise, for some time now, I have been working with the chamber of commerce on a regulatory flexibility proposal, one which I support, to give small business judicial review of adverse decisions concerning the impact of Federal regulations. Yet, this amendment and many others, which enjoy bipartisan support, are being used here in the most partisan of manners. These are just two examples. There are others.…”