Political Quotes

“No, just as the gentleman, having made the attack on the gentleman, would not yield to him, I certainly would not yield at this point. I do want to say to my colleagues, while I generally like the bill, I also wanted some amendments, but they are following the wrong course. What we should do, and we can still do it, offer these as amendments to the campaign finance bill, because the same Committee on Rules that would not allow amendments to the defense bill and shut off reasonable amendments to this bill, and I regret that as a supporter, this same Committee on Rules has made more amendments in order to the campaign finance bill than I think it has made in order for all other bills that have come up in this Congress. So given what the Committee on Rules has done, the Committee on Rules is actually out shopping for nongermane amendments. So while we have to do this very important bill in a quick-time operation, Members who, like myself, had good amendments to this bill which were germane to this bill and were shut out, despite, in some cases, assurances that we would get them in, make them nongermane amendments to the campaign finance bill. Follow this pattern. Go to the Committee on Rules. Make any amendment we want to bankruptcy a nongermane amendment to the campaign finance bill. Not only will it be made in order, but we will have unlimited debate time. It does seem to me, when we are judging the seriousness of purpose and fairness of procedure, to compare these.…”