Political Quotes

“I want to thank all of the subcommittee chairmen who worked this bill, because they are all great people; the gentleman from California, Bob Dornan, the gentleman from New York, Mr. McHugh, the gentleman from Pennsylvania, Mr. Weldon, the gentleman from Colorado, Mr. Hefley, the gentleman from Virginia, Mr. Bateman, and all of their counterparts on the Democrat side, and my old friend and compadre, the gentleman from Missouri, Ike Skelton, for the great bipartisanship that he displayed. I remember the meetings we had, some in his office, some in my office, working military issues. Mr. Speaker, we undertook to do a few things in this bill that were important for the American people. We had hearings on the safety of our fighter aircraft that were crashed in a series of crashes beginning in January of this year. Both F-14s and AV-8Bs went down in high numbers.”