Political Quotes

“Last night on this floor, Mr. Chairman, I talked about the substance of the ACLU lawsuit in Baltimore, the fact that special race, class, and location-based housing vouchers will become public policy outside the scope of this House, of this Congress, because of government by consent decree, which is what some groups in our country want to foist upon the people. This amendment goes to process. I know with respect to substance he agrees with me, and I certainly agree with him, and want to lend my support to his amendment, because as bad as the substance of the settlement is, the process was just as bad. The lack of notification to the leaders of subdivisions of the impacted areas in the Baltimore metropolitan area was wrong, it will always be wrong, and I certainly am glad to rise today to lend my support to my colleague from Baltimore County with respect to the poor, horrific process, that was foisted on the people of the Baltimore metropolitan area in the context of this lawsuit.”