Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, there are several problems that the membership ought to have with this amendment, things that I hope that the gentleman from New York (Mr. LaFalce) will respond to, concerns which we have. My first concern is that we are mandating that anyone who takes out commercial insurance must also take out coverage for terrorism. Now, in the towns and the cities and rural areas that I represent, there are a lot of small businessmen who do not think that they need insurance to ensure against terrorism. Actually, I have farmers in my district. They have chicken houses, I would say to the gentleman from New York. Those farmers do not feel like those chicken houses and those chickens need insurance against terrorism. They do not believe that there is much of a possibility of a terrorist planting a bomb in one of those chicken houses. I have a lot of repair shops in my district that repair used automobiles. The people that own those businesses and that pay liability insurance and take out coverage on those businesses, they do not believe that they need to be paying for insurance to cover that auto body shop or that beauty shop. I have a lot of beauticians, I would say to the gentleman from New York. I have a lot of beauticians in my district. They have a lot of beauty shops. They really do not believe that they ought to be compelled by the Federal Government to take out insurance to insure against terrorists.”