Political Quotes

“I take to the floor to talk a little bit about H.R. 100, which is the Commonwealth bill for Guam. This bill was first introduced in 1989 and it has endured some 8 years of negotiation with both the Bush and the Clinton Administration, and to date we have not reached any consensus on this bill. As a consequence of that, I had asked the gentleman from Alaska [Don Young], Chairman of the Committee on Resources, to schedule a hearing in order to perhaps facilitate more discussion on the bill and to get a kind of check on the health of the bill, both from the perspective of the administration and the Congress. The chairman of the Committee on Resources has gratefully allowed us to have this hearing on October 29, next Wednesday. H.R. 100 has been a bill that we deliberately labeled it H.R. 100, because next year, 1998, stands for the 100th anniversary in which the island of Guam has been associated with the United States. Guam was ceded to the United States by Spain as a result of the Spanish-American War, and next year we commemorate or celebrate, or otherwise acknowledge in one way or another the 100th anniversary of what most historians call the splendid little war.”