Political Quotes

“some of the Commissioners have never been replaced. Even though their terms were renewable, they have been on the commission for some 20 years. We, finally, last year put a term limit on the Commissioners and this year thought it was a good idea to put a term on the General Counsel who apparently has, I only found out subsequently to my filing of the amendment, been in the position for nearly 11 years without interruption. Now it seems to me that if term limits are good for, according to some people, Members of Congress, and I disagree with that because I think the ballot box is a great term limit for elected officials. But, if it is good for committee chairmen and subcommittee chairmen, as appointed officials within this House of Representatives, and it is good for various other executive agencies, then it is good for the Federal Election Commission. And maybe that person who has made life tenure out of serving in that position, I say albeit not altogether fairly, should be up for review as to whether or not he should continue to hold his office. These are legitimate questions I have. We tried to fence money for years to compel the Federal Election Commission to upgrade its computers. They were using equipment that went back 25 years, ancient technology. And they wouldn't do it. Finally, we just made them do it, and they were forced to upgrade their technology.”