Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I would just reiterate what Mr. Klein from Florida was saying about the purpose and the need for this bill at this time in this legislation. The America COMPETES Act is about moving this country forward, making sure that for the next 20 years we continue to have a strong science and engineering and technological future for the country. The bill, as we said, provides all sorts of funding to the National Science Foundation, to NIST, to NOAA, and to the Department of Energy, so that we can do research in a whole variety of ways across this country through our universities and other kinds of facilities and institutions of higher learning. Now I guess I'd like to speak on behalf of Muftiah--or speak to Muftiah. Many people have presented a lot of accolades that I can't top. But what I can say is, as a new member to the Rules Committee, that we have had some very contentious, rough and tumble bills, to use a couple of the terms Mr. Dreier used, Ms. Matsui, but we can look to Muftiah--I can look to Muftiah--to give good advice and to bring a calming influence to the committee and certainly to me as we were going through the whole list of parliamentary procedures--what's in order, what's not in order, why is it in order.…”