Political Quotes

“before we get to another matter, let me just say for a minute, following on what we did Friday a week ago where we had a bipartisan agreement between the leaderships to look into the various activities surrounding the paying back of $82,000 by a Member and having, I think, since discovered that neither leadership knew what was going on in that instance, and we have an institutional commitment to work together to protect our integrity, I think this is another step that hopefully we can resolve and pursue issues of institutional integrity on a genuinely bipartisan basis, and I appreciate the majority leader and the gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr. Istook] both reaching out and trying to find comity here.”