Political Quotes

“I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the amendment. I've had a chance to think about it, and I am persuaded by its merits. I think this is a genuinely helpful amendment. But I do want to take this opportunity in this 5 minutes to talk about broader issues, and I do so, I will say--I would not extraordinarily have done this, to take this 5 minutes in this way, but the rule was so outrageously stingy in refusing adequate debate time on some central issues that we have no option but to use this perfectly reasonable amendment as an opportunity to say what we were prevented by the rule from saying. By the way, there's one part of the rule that should be mentioned that I didn't have time to talk about earlier. The regular order that my Republican colleagues promised has been beat up pretty good recently, and certainly by this rule. The Congressional Budget Office says that their effort to expand the head of the consumer agency to a five-member commission will cost $71 million over the 5-year period. Now, that violates their CutGo rule, but they don't care that much about violating their rules when it suits their ideology. But they found an offset. What's the offset? The offset is a bill that the House already passed to save money from the Federal Housing Administration, the FHA. So here's what they're doing. They're reaching back, and the rule retroactively merges the two bills. How's that for the regular order?…”