Political Quotes

“next week I will be offering an amendment to strike $13,129.66 from the White House office account to demonstrate the will of the House that the White House release the logs and manifests from the Marine helicopter squadron that supports the President. This is clearly a symbolic amendment. We would have preferred to put an amendment in that asks the White House to release this information. This is in everybody's best interests, particularly the White House's best interests, to get this information out in the public domain. If they are telling the truth that there were no other flights of this type, they will be hailed for telling that truth. If they are not telling the truth, it is to everybody's benefit to get the information out now. This is longer from November than tomorrow will be. This is not a partisan issue. Everybody is interested in good government. We know that the amendment is a symbolic amendment, and the money can be put back in in conference if the information is released now. In case after case, the White House has given the American people a Whitewateresque runaround on the release of documents. They have done it again in this case. They are not releasing documents. They have given misinformation, conflicting information. It does not serve the White House well; it does not serve us well. We are held in ever-decreasing esteem by the American people. We need to do something to reinstate confidence in this institution and government in general.”