Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, it is my honor and privilege to address you here on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, and I come to the floor this afternoon, Mr. Speaker, to address you and bring up the topic of the dialogue that has been--I will say flowing forth on the floor of the United States Senate over the last few weeks. As I listened to that dialogue and listened to the way they have taken Saul Alinsky's ``Rules for Radicals'' and decided that they are going to implement them and deploy them on the floor of the United States Senate, it occurs to me that when, out of the mouths of people like Senator Schumer and Senator Reid and Senator Durbin come these allegations--and sometimes allegations that name and target Members of the House of Representatives, it occurs to me that, when I came to this Congress, Mr. Speaker, in 2003, there was a rule that existed here that prevented a Member of the House of Representatives from naming a United States Senator here on the floor. It was kind of a shield of protectionism, so that the Senators could not be directly criticized in the dialogue that we have here on the floor. My good friend and then-Member of Congress, Tom Feeney from Florida, read through the rules, as a good, honest lawyer, newly elected to the United States Congress would, and he saw that rule and wondered: Why can't we utter the name of a United States Senator on the floor of the House of Representatives?…”