Maxwell Frost: “Mr. Speaker, if the country of Cuba had a parliament or a legislature, they would be attempting to do exactly what the…”

“Mr. Speaker, if the country of Cuba had a parliament or a legislature, they would be attempting to do exactly what the Republicans are doing tonight. They would give the dictator of that country the right to prevent that parliament from voting on an issue of whether or not to raise the debt, whether or not to put the country in debt. All we are asking for is the right to vote squarely on whether to put this country deeper in debt. The Dallas Morning Newspaper in my home city, a very conservative newspaper, editorialized today against what the Republicans are doing, saying, shame on them. The Congress should vote directly on the question of putting this country deeper in debt, something which this rule prohibits us and prevents us from doing, just as they would in the Cuban parliament if there happened to be one.”