Political Quotes

“when the average American learns that Congress does not have to live under all of the laws and regulations that all of our citizens live under, they are appalled. They understand how difficult it is for a Congress to effectively legislate when they live isolated from the effects of the laws and the regulations that those laws produce. At the first day of the last Congress, I submitted legislation that would apply to Congress all the laws and the regulations that they have applied to all of the rest of us and exempted themselves from. Several others submitted similar legislation. They were all combined in the Shays-Swett bill which passed the last Congress. Unfortunately, that died because of lack of action by the Senate. So I was very pleased when at about 2 in the morning on the first long legislative day of this Congress that we passed that bill. We are now met today to discuss a bill from the Senate that embodies all of the essential features of the bill that we passed in the last Congress and again on that first long day of this Congress. I am very pleased to rise in strong support of this bill.”