Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today because this is a bipartisan day where we have a number of pieces of legislation we agreed to. I will talk about each of them, but I do want to say that I am a bit disappointed that my chairman decided to focus on a partisan bill on which there is a good deal of disagreement, H.R. 5510, the FTC Process and Transparency Reform Act. The bill, in the view of the Democrats, would undermine consumer protections at the FTC and it would make it harder for the FTC to take action in the case of noneconomic harm, like privacy violations, such as a 2012 cyber peeping case that we have been talking about. So I am hoping that we can, from now on, focus on bills that we, fortunately, do agree on and move them forward. I am talking now about H.R. 5104, the Better On-line Ticket Sales Act, the BOTS Act, sponsored by Marsha Blackburn. I thank Representative Blackburn for authoring the legislation and Representative Tonko for cosponsoring that legislation. The legislation addresses a real problem in the ticket marketplace. Anyone who has tried to buy tickets, let's say, to Adele, Beyonce, or Hamilton knows how difficult it can be to buy online. The Chicago production of Hamilton, I'm sorry to say, sold out almost immediately when tickets were put on sale this summer, and that is not just because everybody was ahead of me online.…”