Political Quotes

“This amendment is back again. I think it is still deja vu all over again because this is now the third time we have taken up this amendment. It is to, once again, eliminate the Council on Environmental Quality. We have a pending roll call on that very exact question. It just seems to me we have plenty to do around here. We have plenty to do and are having a very busy day. We will have a very busy day tomorrow, and we have very ambitious goals on the part of the majority to pass through a lot of appropriations bills. Why in the world would we have three of the same amendments? I appreciate that different people wanted to give different perspectives on it, but couldn't they all have spoken on the same amendment? I also would just say that a lot of my colleagues on this side of the aisle had amendments that were eliminated and that weren't given a chance to speak on the floor. If the majority had just gone from three to one of these amendments, they could have used the time for two more of my colleagues' amendments and we could have had a little more Democratic debate, perhaps on reinstating funding for the National Museum of the American Latino. There were a lot of good things we would like to see discussed under this bill. Why in the world did the majority have to have us discuss this a third time? Mr. Chairman, I do want you to know I have my talking points.…”