Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman. I didn't talk about intentions. I talked about fact. I talked about fact. Pete Sessions, chairman of the Rules Committee, Republican, said this when we passed the farm bill: ``I believe that this is an honest attempt to get us to go by passing part of the farm bill, to go to conference.'' I asked the gentleman last week, I asked him again, there's nothing on here about going to conference. The gentleman's told me we're not going to conference until we pass something on the nutrition part. We want to see something on the nutrition part passed. Pete Sessions said, in addition to that, when talking about why they brought the farm bill to the floor in the condition it was, dropping all reference and provisions for poor people to have nutritional assistance, said this: We're attempting to then separate, bifurcate, offer today a rule and the underlying legislation which hopefully will pass which would go to conference and the Senate, because they've passed their own farm bill, has included in its provisions where they discuss the nutrition program. This is Pete Sessions, Republican chairman of the Rules Committee speaking, Mr. Speaker. As a result of that, that should be in their bill on a conference measure. The House simply, at this point, if we pass this part, could go to conference. So the gentleman is not accurate when he reflects there's nothing to go to conference on. The Senate has amended their bill into the House bill.…”