Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from California (Mr. DeSaulnier), my friend, for yielding me the time today. Ordinarily, Mr. Speaker, what folks decide they are going to highlight on the House floor are all of our disagreements. In fact, the 1 minutes today highlighted that. My friend from California and I were talking before debate began--and I certainly include you in this partnership, Mr. Speaker. You lock a couple of us in the room together, we can solve about 90 percent of what ails this country. But the media wins--often distracts--from what is going on, and that is my frustration today, Mr. Speaker. I don't really have any objection with the rule as it sits before us. We heard testimony last night from the ranking member of the Committee on Financial Services. To paraphrase his words, he said these bills were so flawed that he didn't even offer any amendments in committee to try to make them better because there was no hope for these bills, no hope in two senses, Mr. Speaker: no hope for these bills in that they were so poorly drafted and poorly directed that they would not benefit the American people in the ways that they were intended; and no hope for these bills in that the Senate will never take them up and the President will never put his signature on them because they are so flawed. I can't take responsibility for what the Committee on Financial Services did, Mr. Speaker, because I don't sit on that committee.…”