Political Quotes

“So many of our brand-new colleagues seem to have run on the thesis that government can't be the solution to any of your problems, rather that ``it'' is the problem, that it can't be counted upon to help people, that it can't even be counted upon to invest in America's long-term interests. It seems as though, now that they've been elected, they're doing everything they can to prove themselves to be right. This is no way to run a government. A 2-week CR? Now, we don't have any great problem with the components of this CR except for the fact that it's 2 weeks. {time} 1520 It should be a 7-month CR. In fact, we should really tackle the appropriations bills themselves. But if it's a 7-month CR, it shouldn't be a dump truck of legislation that includes in it virtually every controversial issue that this Congress has dealt with over the last 20, 30 years. My good friend from Kentucky, the chairman of the committee, will recall that quaint phrase that we would deploy in committee, that this amendment is not in order because it constitutes legislating on an appropriations bill. Well, we legislated everything. This bill has more poison pills in it than Rasputin's medicine cabinet. Everything is thrown in here, and it was thrown in in the middle of the night. You know, bills that we had considered carefully in committee that had come to the floor, that they were debated carefully and then resolved, and yet sometimes in a 10-minute debate those bills were dispensed with.…”