Rae Oliver Davis: “Webster's Dictionary defines hypocrisy as a false pretension to personal qualities or principles not actually possessed.…”

“Webster's Dictionary defines hypocrisy as a false pretension to personal qualities or principles not actually possessed. Politicize is defined as to make the subject a political discussion or dispute. Progress is defined as moving forward, advancing, developing. Now, of those three words, I can pick out two that occur regularly in this Chamber as the minority party perfects its blocking maneuvers. Unfortunately, it is not progress. Let us talk about hypocrisy. Four Members of the minority party took the same trip with the foreign agent that the Democrats keep crowing that the majority leader took. Another Member of the minority party filed travel papers clearly stating that a lobbyist paid for her trip, but then corrected the papers after reporters asked about them and chalked it up to human error. {time} 2115 Yet the minority leader continues to insist that the ethics problems her party has trumped up is a Republican issue. I think that those who live in glass houses should not throw stones, lest their own walls begin to crack. The minority leader's staff has not properly disclosed their own travel 12 times. A Democrat member of the ethics committee reported that a registered lobbyist paid for a trip she took to Puerto Rico. Two other Democrats did not even disclose that they went on the same trip. The minority whip took ten trips paid for by private parties that he never disclosed.…”