Political Quotes

“I want to pay my tribute to the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Regula]. He and I worked on this bill for many, many years. He knows it thoroughly. And, for the most part, I think that this bill reflects good judgment on his part. In view of the fact that the bill and the rule have killed NEA, I will not support the bill. In many respects it is a good bill. It provides additional funds for building our parks, our natural resources, but it devastates almost equally important cultural programs. I mentioned what it had done to the National Endowment for the Arts. And although it gives its approval to appropriations for the National Endowment for the Humanities, it kills the Woodrow Wilson Center, which I think has done good work over the years, and it suspends work on the Museum for the American Indian. We have been waiting year after year after year for a museum to pay tribute to the great people who first inhabited this country. So, Mr. Chairman, again I pay my tribute to the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Regula].”