Political Quotes

“So, Madam Chairman, there is an urgency to providing this protection for the recipients and benefits, which is not the same as for more sophisticated, better financed litigants who were dealing with public policy in the field of labor law, securities law, et cetera. I would hope the amendment would be adopted. I would hope to work with the gentleman. I must say I was almost surprised the bill came up too soon. I think one of the issues was that we had some time to fill. I was hoping we could have worked a little bit more on some amendments. Faced with this choice now, I think it would be important for us to adopt the amendment because, otherwise, we run the risk of a nonoverrideable veto that would deny the people whose plight led us to get into this years ago, the beneficiaries of disability programs and others who were being hurt. I do not want to put their right to get the benefit of this good legislation at risk, and that is why I hope the amendment is adopted.”