Political Quotes

“Let me move to the bill before us. It has been thoroughly covered with faint praise. Maybe it deserves a hearing in its own right before this thing gets pasted all over the place. I would like my colleagues and our constituents to know what is in it because I think there are some good things in it. The conference report on H.R. 2614, the Certified Development Program Improvement Act, has grown over the past week to include not only a 3-year reauthorization bill for the Small Business Administration, but it includes extensive tax legislation, provisions to reform and improve the Medicare program, and, as I mentioned, pension reform. We might call this bill 'Small Business and Friends.' A lot of important luggage is being carried on the train that our little small business bill is pulling. As chairman of the Committee on Small Business, I will comment first on the Small Business Reauthorization Act of 2000. This is, as I said before, the result of many months of work by the Senate and House Committees on Small Business.”