Political Quotes

“I very much oppose this amendment. Let's not lose sight of what is going on here. This is a substitute for S. 4. If adopted, this amendment would replace S. 4. Let's be clear about that. If we adopt this amendment, we will not simply have added provisions that might be appropriate in another time or another place. We will have replaced the text of S. 4--a bill that is critically important to our future competitiveness, a bill that will keep our manufacturers on the leading edge of technology and, perhaps most importantly, a bill that will help generate the technology that will create the high-skill, high-wage jobs of the future. So, you may like the idea the idea of reforming Davis-Bacon. You may like the idea of providing small businesses with judicial review of adverse decisions concerning the impact of regulations. You may like the idea of requiring cost benefit analysis of all regulations. In fact, I like some of the things in the Simpson substitute. But I don't like the idea of killing S. 4.”