Political Quotes

“I do not remember one. I was told that when the equal rights amendment came before us, I do remember it came before us under a suspension of the rules. It was my impression that it had gone through the committee. It had certainly gone through the amendment previously. I do not remember a constitutional amendment coming up that never went through the committee. You have to say, in defense of the Republican leadership, the bill to combat terrorism went through the Judiciary Committee, but after it went through the committee because the right wing in this Congress did not like it, it got totally changed before it came to the floor anyway. Similarly with the immigration bill, the Committee on the Judiciary voted out the immigration bill, but some people in the right wing did not like it so they changed it around. You people on judiciary, we are just being considerate. What is the point of you wasting your time engaging in a model U.N. here, having all these debates. We are going to do whatever we want on the floor anyhow. But we are going to suffer in this case because with regard to tariffs, with regard to a flat tax, there are serious questions here. Apparently these serious questions are going to be resolved not through some open debate in committee with the press involved but through private conversations between Members of the Committee on the Judiciary, sponsors of the bill and members of the Committee on Ways and Means, a totally undemocratic procedure.”