Political Quotes

“I'm glad that the Committee on Government and Oversight isn't the official House historian. In fact, there was a motion to include language like this offered to the financial reform bill. I voted ``no,'' as did Mr. Watt. It was included in the bill. It's true, I voted for the bill. Of course, the gentleman from Texas voted against the bill. So if your vote on the whole bill is taken as an account of what you feel, he was against it. But when it went to conference, it was not in the Senate bill--which was the text of the conference--so it did not come up, and no Republican conferee offered it as an amendment. That is, in the conference, that language which I and the gentleman from North Carolina voted against was not offered by any Member of the conference, Democrat or Republican.”