Political Quotes

“If the gentleman will yield, on this question of congressional coverage, first of all, we are not talking about 535 Members of Congress. Only in the most generic sense. We are talking about those few about whom specific information of a violation of Federal law from a credible source has been developed. I hope that is not more than a handful, or less than that. I hope it is nobody. But it is not 535 and all this overwhelming bookkeeping. We are talking about the very few about whom specific information of the violation of a Federal law by a credible source is obtained, if, if, I say, my amendment is adopted and that becomes the threshold, which it ought to be. But we have also said that the Bryant amendment weakens existing law, and it does. Because the Bryant amendment, making congressional coverage optional, which it already is under the old bill, but just a few words are changed, a cosmetic difference, but the standard now is that the Attorney General can invoke congressional coverage and seek the appointment of an independent counsel if she finds it is in the public interest.”