Political Quotes

“The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee substitute specifically says that the only payment or the only contribution to a legal defense fund which is established for the benefit of a Member that is prohibited is the contribution or other payment by a lobbyist or foreign agent. That is a very different provision from what existed in the original bill. It is just like other gifts. In this bill, in the committee substitute, there are certain things you cannot accept from a lobbyist. Other people have a much broader range as to what they can give to you. In the committee bill, in the substitute which was adopted by the Governmental Affairs Committee, which is before this body, there is a distinction made between what a registered lobbyist can give to you and what the rest of the world can give to you. That is because the public senses and feels that there is too close a connection between us and paid lobbyists when they take us out to dinners, or when they give us tickets to the Redskins games, or whatever.”