Political Quotes

“I rise, as is so frequently and pleasantly my lot in this Congress, to support entirely the major statement made by the chairman of the Committee on Finance, our revered Bill Roth of Delaware. As he stated just now, this proposal for a waiver, a very technical matter, a prudent matter, comes to the floor of the Senate as a unanimous action of the Committee on Finance. Just last week, we had a revenue measure which also came to the Senate with the unanimous agreement of the Finance Committee and was duly enacted and is now, in fact, law. The President signed that measure. We are acting today at the request of the administration, which has a very proper principled concern that if there is any question about the application of this statute, then let that question be resolved by a waiver, which is what we are doing. In the specific instance, Mr. President, as an attorney in practice here in Washington, Ambassador Barshefsky provided legal advice to the Government of Quebec on softwood lumber countervailing measures--I do not fully claim to understand that--and to the Government of Canada itself.”