Political Quotes

“I have to say that I am compelled to set the record straight. We have just completed six bills in the appropriations cycle. We are going to complete the seventh tonight, the seventh, I remind the Members, before the July 4 recess. And how interesting it is I have in my hand a record of the last five Congresses. I have to say the gentleman who preceded me might have been right; in the 103d Congress, both sessions, they did exceed the number of bills that we have had, but in the 102d, second session, the Democrats only passed six bills out of the House before the July 4 recess. In the 101st Congress, they missed in both sessions. In the second session, it was only three. In the first session it was only one. Now, they did it all right in the 100th Congress, in the second session. But in the first session, they only passed six. And my goodness, in the 99th Congress, if I do recall correctly, the Democrats controlled not only the 99th but the 98th and the 97th all the way back for 40 years, and they had had a lot of practice. They had had a lot of practice, but they only passed one single appropriation bill in the second session and guess how many in the first session. I am shocked: zero.”