Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and congratulations on your motion to instruct. First, let me just say, in terms of process, I do think it is important that, before there is a motion to go to conference, there be some notification to the minority; because there have been discussions underway about the customs bill for a long time, and no one on our side, including our leadership, was given any notice of the motion to go to conference today. I think that is a mistake, and I hope it won't be repeated. I say that in good faith and with some good cheer. It is a bad precedent, and I hope it won't be followed. Let me just say a word about currency. We have been working on this for years. We passed several bills through this House directly relating to currency, and it never became law. Instead, there has been interminable talk about doing something. So, finally, there was placed in the Senate bill the proposal of Chuck Schumer. We have an almost similar bill in the House. What is happening here is, I think, that the House bill is going to eliminate the Schumer amendment. So for all the talk on currency, we are essentially going to be back to where we were and have been for years. There are no teeth in the amendment that was proposed by my colleague from Michigan (Mrs. Miller). There are no teeth in it. It is kind of all gums. The same is true of the other language in the Senate bill on currency, with all due respect. It just doesn't face up to the issue.…”