Political Quotes

“I thank the chairman for that and for his leadership on the entire bill. I encourage all of my colleagues to support this simple amendment, and I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. DeFAZIO. I rise in opposition, although I am not opposed. The CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Oregon is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection. Mr. DeFAZIO. At the beginning of the consideration of this bill, I talked about how this was a little bit of ``Groundhog Day'' because all or parts of this bill passed in the last Congress five times. Now the gentleman is kind of disproving my theory because, well, I guess, at the very end of the movie, they broke out of the ``Groundhog Day'' cycle's being repetitive; but the gentleman is actually breaking us out of the cycle. Actually, last year, the ranking member of the Rules Committee, the gentlelady from New York (Ms. Slaughter), a Democrat, offered this identical amendment for sanctions to one of the many offshore oil drilling bills passed by the Republicans in the last Congress. On that day, which was the 25th of July 2012--almost a year ago today--I would note, on an amendment that does exactly what this amendment does, which we think is extraordinarily meritorious, that every Republican voted no--N-O. That would, of course, include Mr. Lamborn and the esteemed chairman, Mr. Hastings. So I'm not sure what has changed in the last year.…”