Political Quotes

“Well, I think he tossed it back to me, Mr. Speaker; so let me go ahead and finish this up. Mr. Sensenbrenner accurately talked about the way in which this particular resolution and the underlying bill on the patent bill violates the House rule that was written not more than 5\1/2\ months ago. Why would we want to violate the rules that we put in place to prevent excessive Federal spending? Doesn't make sense to me. So I agree with Mr. Sensenbrenner: send this thing back. It's a violation of the rule, and I would ask for a ruling on that from the Chair. The other point that I'd like to make is a similar point with regard to the offshore oil drilling bill which really does present a very serious problem for California. All of the offshore drilling in California--and it's very extensive. It's the second largest year for offshore drilling in the United States--is immediately off the southern California coast where we have very serious air pollution problems, some of the worst in the Nation. All of those offshore drilling platforms pollute, air pollution of many different kinds causing potential harm to the citizens of southern California. Those onshore winds bring those pollutants onto the shore and cause additional air pollution problems which then require, under this bill, that the local communities take additional action to reduce the pollutants that are generated onshore, creating a very serious economic problem.…”