Political Quotes

“Mr. President, first of all, let me say I concur with the good Senator from New Jersey that we should follow regular order. He, like myself, has spent decades of service in a legislative body, and we both know this system works when the committee system works. Every legislative body is set up with a committee system. Now, why is that? One of the reasons is because people develop an expertise in a certain lane, and they can use that expertise on the committee. Most importantly, the issues regarding a bill--whether it is good or bad or whether it should be amended or whatever should happen to it--is best handled in the committee system, where people have an expertise in the area that the bill goes to. This bill goes to the Foreign Relations Committee, which I chair-- which my good friend from New Jersey previously chaired--and it will be handled in the regular order by that committee, but it is a bad way to do a piece of legislation to draw it, drop it, and then come to the floor and try to pass it unanimously. This piece of legislation was brought to the committee yesterday, and it is a piece of legislation that certainly deserves consideration but not this way. I have not had a chance to even read it, let alone study it, and that is true of virtually every Member of the majority party.…”