Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, the underlying resolution makes it much less likely that we are going to have a deadlock vote in the committee. We have given the chairman and ranking member a lot more ability to manage the work load of the committee. So I think the prospect of a hung jury, in all due respect, is much less under the procedures that we have in the underlying resolution. I might also point out, as a result of the last amendment that was adopted, we are now talking about complaints filed by Members. We showed a mistrust for the public in the last amendment that we adopted. Now we are saying we cannot even really have confidence that our Members will bring proper complaints. Therefore, we have to have some automatic dismissal process. Enough is enough. We have not had a hung jury in the work of the Ethics Committee since I have been on it in the last 6 years. Did we take too long to resolve issues? We did. The rules package before us deals with those concerns. On frivolous complaints, we handled them quickly. There has not been a problem there.”