Political Quotes

“This is a bill which was broadly supported on both sides. We have some controversial issues that will be coming up later dealing with the copyright subject matter. This is not one of them. What we are doing here is concurring in the first place with the Senate over a base bill that we already passed. This is a bill that included amendments of a technical nature that we already passed, with one or two dissenting votes on a rollcall. The Senate added this bill, which we have referred to as La Cienega, because that was the name of the case, and what we have here is a reading by the courts, and it was not the court's choice of policy, it was a reading of the technical language of the statute, the effect of which would be to deprive decent, hard-working composers of the right to benefit from their compositions, not because of any real dispute over who owned what, not because of any policy issue, but because of a very narrow technical point.”