Political Quotes

“in the last 2 days, many Americans have been intrigued by the story of 51 Texas legislators breaking a quorum in the Texas legislature by traveling to Ardmore, Oklahoma. Many may wonder why those legislators, whom I consider profiles in courage, would take such an extraordinarily drastic step. People such as Representative Pete Laney, who several years ago, when President Bush first learned that he would be the President-elect to the United States, was the Speaker of the Texas House, the Democrat that then President-elect Bush asked to introduce him to the Nation. He was a bipartisan Speaker, a great Speaker of the House. Mr. Laney, along with 50 others, are in Ardmore, Oklahoma. I think the issue, to a large degree, revolves around the principle of congressional redistricting. For those that do not understand that process, once every decade, after a census is taken, each State must go back through its legislature and redraw congressional district lines so we have equal populations in districts across the country. In 2001, the Texas legislature failed to do so.”