Political Quotes

“I rise in opposition to the rule. Mr. Speaker, I went before the Committee on Rules and offered two amendments which were ruled out of order. The first amendment would have ended an outrageous practice at the Resolution Trust Corporation. Mr. Speaker, there are 3,000 employees at the Resolution Trust Corporation out of the 3,000,000 Federal employees. They pay themselves, first of all, 10 percent more than other Federal employees. But as if that was not enough, they then pay themselves a geographical adjuster, which is three, and four, and five times higher than other Government employees. The end result is a clerk doing the same job at the RTC makes in Washington, DC $4,000 more than a worker at the Energy Department, or the Agriculture Department, or other departments of the Government. A privileged few, a double standard, and we are not talking about a few million dollars here. We are talking about the principle of the thing. In San Francisco, if one works for the RTC, their income, their salary, is adjusted by 31.4 percent because they live in San Francisco, and the cost-of-living is more there. But if one works for any other Government agency in San Francisco, they only receive an 8 percent cost of living increase. Now does it cost 31 percent more to live in San Francisco, or does it cost 8 percent more? I do not know, but let us end this outrageous practice. Let us treat all Federal employees with equity. And let us end this outrageous practice by the RTC.”