Political Quotes

“I disagree with the majority leader's statement that this last year and the year before was blanket permission. As I understand the rule, unless the House granted such permission, any Member in a committee that was sitting in a markup could have objected. Any Member could have objected. If you sat during the 5-minute rule to mark up a bill in committee, the objection of a single Member in committee ended that meeting. You had to come to the floor, and any 10 Members could block it. This is an arrogation to the majority far beyond what we had. I sit on the Banking Committee. I do not want to be forced to choose between debating safeguards for the American people on the Mexico loan and protecting Social Security in the balanced budget amendment. What you have done is a brand new procedure. The intolerance for debate is already starting to rise, shout them down, don't yield time. The gentleman has an hour. May I ask the gentleman from Texas how much time he plans to allow us to debate this?”