Steny Hoyer: “I want you to know that, with all due respect, I said to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Ray LaHood), I said, Mr.…”

“I want you to know that, with all due respect, I said to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Ray LaHood), I said, Mr. LaHood, I will get you 207 votes if you will get 11, and we will make Bob Michel the Speaker. But he still has not come up with those 11 votes, Bob. I don't know what the problem is, but we are working on it. It was your generation that gave us the unrestrained Cold War, and we are welcoming you back now that we have solved that problem. But also I thought to myself, yours was the generation of unapologetic civility in the Congress of the United States. Those were the good old days, although I might observe, I am sure, that the civility is much greater in its recollection than it was in its experience, because I served with so many of you, and I know that there were acrimonious times even then.”