Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for his comments, and although, as you saw, we had an overwhelming vote for those three bills. We had already passed those. They are in the Senate. Now we have packaged them and repassed them. Mr. Speaker, I would say, with all due respect to the majority leader that, frankly, the events of Sunday would not be affected by those bills. We would hope very sincerely--again, let me reiterate, in the ``Young Guns'' under your authorship and Mr. Cantor's authorship and Mr. Ryan's authorship, that you believed in the book, the three leaders of this House--Mr. Cantor is no longer with us--in openness, consideration of issues, notwithstanding the fact that they may be uncomfortable issues. And, in fact, Speaker Ryan said--and I am sure you are tired of hearing me use this quote: ``But Ryan said he wasn't interested in playing things safe if it came at the expense of an open legislative process . . . we are not going to auto-up the process.'' Structured rules auto-up the process. ``We are not going to auto-up the process and predetermine the outcome of everything around here. I want the House to work its will.'' With all due respect to my friend, I asked a specific question--and I will reiterate that question. It is not about whether we have had 1,000 amendments or 5 amendments or 700 amendments. It is whether or not the Maloney amendment will be made in order on the Financial Services bill.…”