Political Quotes

“I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I have to say, after hearing my colleague from Florida, I'm a little bit confused about where he stands. Certainly, his arguments were many of the same arguments that I and others have been making. In fact, Ranking Member Slaughter proposed in committee yesterday to strike suspensions authority specifically so the gentleman from Florida could offer his bill as an amendment to the bill and so we could have a discussion about this blind trust issue. I think that would have been a better way to have brought it to the floor. Yet the gentleman from Florida voted ``no'' yesterday to the provision that he is effectively trying to argue for on the floor today. He concluded his remarks by confirming that he plans to vote for a rule that fundamentally doesn't allow him to do what he thinks needs to be done to restore ethics and integrity to this body. So I think that that is an example of the type of contradictions that we're hearing, but I would urge the gentleman to be convinced by his own arguments so that he might join me in opposing the previous question and in opposing the rule. Madam Speaker, it is my honor to yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Minnesota, an original sponsor of the STOCK Act, Mr. Walz.”