Political Quotes

“I know some have wondered why the pace of the House has been so slow this year. Here we are in March and we have not done any serious legislating, and I guess people who have been worried about that can now take heart. We are indeed legislating. We are in a congratulatory legislative mode. This week we will be congratulating Guatemala, Nicaragua, Warren Christopher, and Moses. What we do I think is get 3 out of 4 right, because as the gentleman from California who preceded me noted, what we have here is an effort to enlist religion into a political battle. No one thinks that this resolution will have any influence on the outcome of a court case. Indeed, we would hope it would not. There is going to be a judicial proceeding. How often does Congress take sides by resolution in a pending court case? The answer, fortunately, is not very often. It does it apparently when we have people in control of the House of Representatives who are lacking a legislative agenda, who are unhappy about a vacuum, and therefore put this into it, as has been noted by my colleague from California, without any hearing, without any chance to amend it.”