Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, one thing I would like to point out, I have great respect for the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Sensenbrenner), who did speak against this legislation. I would point out to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Waters) that what the gentleman said was we do not need any Federal legislation regulating this industry. That is not what the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Waters) has said or what the gentleman from New York said, or what all of these consumer groups have said. What they have said is we need to regulate this industry. There is certainly not disagreement among the opponents. I think some of the opponents want the present state of affairs where there is absolutely no regulation in a number of States to continue. There are others that want to put this industry out of business, and then there are those of us in the middle who believe this is a legitimate business. We may never go there as customers. There are a lot of stores I do not go in as a customer, but I do not try to close them down because 15 million Americans do go there.”