Political Quotes

“First of all, let me say, Senator Glenn was the chief sponsor of last year's bill. He is the cosponsor of this year's bill. He is not filibustering, nor am I, nor anyone else who offered amendments to improve this bill. The committee process was significantly bypassed. S. 1 was introduced on a Wednesday night, the hearing was on a Thursday, and they wanted to go to markup on a Friday. The lesson to be learned here is it is useful to have a committee consider a bill. A lot of the amendments adopted here should have been offered and adopted in committee if we had the time. There is no filibuster going on. It seems to me to suggest that people who cosponsor this bill, S. 1, such as Senator Glenn, are filibustering their own bill makes no sense at all. Finally, I ask unanimous consent to print in the Record a letter relative to S. 993 signed by the same people who now support S. 1-- which they do--but last October saying they strongly support S. 993 and would oppose any amendments to S. 993, the same president of the National League of Cities, the same Governor of Ohio.”