Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we are going to have a lot of time to flush out some of these arguments again tomorrow when the vote gets near, but I thought I might pick up on a couple of things here that my good friend from Wyoming said. We do a lot of work together, and he is a great Senator and a good friend of mine. He just happens to be wrong on this issue, but other than that, he is a good friend of mine. This is a good, healthy debate on policy. There is a lot of talk about these ambush elections. Now we are going to have ambush elections. Well, that is not so. The current median time from when a petition is filed and when the election occurs is about 37 to 38 days. Again, I heard from my friend saying this could be ambush elections, and all that kind of stuff. Even one of the Nation's largest management-side law firm disagrees. One of the attorneys from Jackson Lewis told the Wall Street Journal that he thinks the time would be shaved between 19 and 23 days under the proposal. Mr. Trauger, vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers, said the elections would be held in 20 to 25 days under the new rule. So that is not an ambush election at all. All this rule does is remove these extra legal hurdles that can cause excessive delays. We keep hearing about rulemaking, and saying: Well, this board has only issued three of these rules in the past 75 years, two of these rules in the last couple of years.…”