Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio, a member of the conference committee, Mr. LaTourette. {time} 1540 Mr. LaTOURETTE. I thank both chairmen for yielding and also for the recognition. Mr. Speaker, it's like a breath of fresh air has blown through this Chamber. I will tell you what a relief it is. Congratulations goes to Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Dicks and to the subcommittee chairs and the ranking members for getting us to a point that was normal practice for the first 12 years that I was here, which is to do things like have a subcommittee markup. It's where people get to offer amendments--good amendments, bad amendments, in- between amendments--but they were thoughts that they had. We'd debate them; we'd discuss them; and we'd vote on them. The same thing happened in the full committee; the same thing happened on the floor; and we actually had a conference between the House and the Senate. Some people had never been to a conference before because they hadn't been here that long. I had Members come up to me who were new--we have 87, 88 new Republican freshmen, and we even have some sophomores and juniors--who didn't even know what the 5-minute rule was for the discussion of an amendment on the floor.…”