Political Quotes

“I oppose this motion to instruct, and I urge my colleagues to defeat it. I think it is important that we look at precisely what the motion to instruct does. There are two pieces to it... steps to begin meetings have in fact been agreed to, making the first point of the motion to instruct moot. I guess I would add on that point that I myself agree with the concern that the conferees should meet and that we should begin the process, because I wholeheartedly agree it is critically important work. But the second portion of the motion to instruct is the portion of the motion I think our colleagues should be concerned about and, quite frankly, which is the portion of the motion to instruct which makes it technically flawed. And that is that we instruct the conferees that they insist that H.R. 2723 be included in the conference report. What that means is that we insist on the House position and the House position only.”