Political Quotes

“reclaiming my time, if I might respond, the gentleman is absolutely correct. There is the option of waiving the point of order and requiring a vote on the House floor. But that could have been the same application for the exception in section 4 on page 4 of the legislation. We could have said that if it requires compliance with accounting and auditing procedures with respect to grants or other money or property provided by the Federal Government, that we could get the analysis, have a vote and a point of order, that it would have to be overcome by an affirmative vote of the majority. The same for emergency assistance or relief or national security or emergency legislation. I do not disagree with the exceptions that are in the legislation. But it seems to me that since we have a publicly owned enterprise competing against a privately owned enterprise, unless we apply the same rules to both, we may well find ourselves in the situation where we might well vote to overcome the point of order, but we may not. In that case, a privately owned toxic waste facility would be treated much more harshly in terms of regulations than a publicly owned one.”