Political Quotes

“I think the frustration here is that no one wants to deny any Member the opportunity to offer an amendment. It is just that with the debate on some of these amendments, we are hearing the same arguments on our side in terms of not opening this up and include the costs of all these items before any kind of unfunded mandate would emanate from this body. The arguments are very similar in most of these areas. Limiting debate would allow everyone to offer their amendments. Members could stay on the floor and listen because the votes would be coming much closer. That is all we are trying to get to, not to deny any Member the opportunity to offer an amendment. We are just talking right now about this one title of the bill. I was in committee along with the gentlewoman, and these amendments were allowed to be offered in committee. In some of the other sections they were not because they were part of the rule.”