Political Quotes

“I want to reiterate my objection to the procedure by which we are dealing with this. Tom Foley, our former Speaker, has been, it seems to me, unfairly maligned to some extent. Let us contrast the way we passed this bill, and we passed this bill, as the gentleman from Connecticut has been very decent in pointing out, under Tom Foley's leadership; but we passed it not in the middle of the night. I understand we are here at 10 after 1 in the morning because we are in the midst of this revolution, we are going to work hard except we are taking off now, I gather, for about 10 days. So we stay up late at night, rush this bill through, no amendments are allowed, no discussion will come through. Members are aware, for instance, and I am in favor of this, but it says in here no Member of Congress will be personally liable for the payment of compensation. I think that makes sense. I do not think all the Members have had a chance to talk about this. This bill does not apply the Freedom of Information Act to Congress. It says we will study it. I think that is a sensible thing, but those are things that ought to be talked about. This bill, unlike the bill we had before, allows Members to use federally funded frequent flyer miles, and that is not easy to say for me. It allows those to be used for personal use. Now people in the private sector cannot do that.”