Political Quotes

“I believe what the Senator has described--and I must give him a great deal of credit, because he has been very thorough and meticulous on this legislation. For that, I think we have already made some perfecting language that has been helpful. But, really, he is providing us one piece of a puzzle and then he is saying, ``Well, because with this one piece of the puzzle you can't tell us the whole picture, then the picture does not exist.'' This scenario, for example, I think lacks the actual legislative language. It lacks information from State and local governments and the Federal agency on the impact of the legislation. It lacks the text of the CBO letter indicating the basis of the estimate, including CBO's assumption on the effective date based on the legislation when a regulation is written. We could continue to construct this scenario and somehow try to back into it. But I would add that, through this process, it is on an individual basis. These will be devised by the authorizing committee based upon not strictly one piece of paper, but based upon much of what I just went through in the list. And again, it resides with the authorizing committee.”