Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman. The gentleman has just said we want to have individuals have the right to offer amendments. Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York wants to offer this amendment. {time} 1400 This House voted for his amendment, as the gentleman recalls. A majority of this House supports the Maloney amendment, unless they have their votes changed. They had their votes changed. We came back the following week, and the majority of this House voted for the Maloney amendment. Unfortunately, the bill went down. I say ``unfortunately'' because the Maloney amendment didn't go forward. There were a lot of good things in that bill. A majority of your Members voted against it. Had a majority of your Members voted for it, it would have passed, notwithstanding what we did, because you are in the majority and you have the numbers. So I would simply urge not to talk about we have had 15 amendments or 500 amendments. We would feel it very important that this Congress go on record telling our fellow Americans that we don't believe in discrimination against LGBT citizens, period. If the majority of the House would vote that way, I think the majority of the Senate would vote that way. If the Maloney amendment is made in order, it will have, in my view, the support of the majority of this House. In that regard, therefore, it is certainly not specious, and I would hope that it would be made in order. Lastly, Mr.…”