Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I again want to say that when the gentleman from Delaware (Mr. Castle) proposed this, he really precipitated our school children doing something that a lot of teachers and a lot of parents were not able to do, and, that is, have our school children learn not only the 50 States but now with the addition of the year 2009, the six additional quarters, they will learn the locations, and they will learn something about the States, the District of Columbia, and the territories. I think there are school children out there that are eagerly awaiting these quarters. I also want to say this, and here is some more good news about this, the taxpayers of the United States are currently profiting by $200 million per every quarter issued. So the net effect of this on the Treasury, using today's estimate, will be a net gain of $1.2 billion by including these additional coins. Now that was not the reason for it, but it just means that as is oft, we find that good acts sometimes have their own rewards that we do not know about. This will be an additional benefit to the people of the United States.”