Political Quotes

“I will begin by praising my good friend, the chairman of the subcommittee. It is just that he has brought us a bad piece of legislation. It should be rejected instantly by the House of Representatives because it does nothing to help anything. I refer to the Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act, which it is not. Time and time again, we Democrats accuse our Republican colleagues of passing bills that are in search of problems. I would like to say that this is the same. But worse than that, I can say that we have before us a bill that is a prime example of trying to cure the disease and kill the patient at the same time. In point of fact, H.R. 3309 would take the FCC entirely out of the Administrative Procedure Act and make it subject to a unique set of procedural requirements totally understood by no one. And there will have to be a bunch of lawyers hired, as the gentleman from Nebraska has pointed out, because they're sure going to need them to understand what has been done. Everybody in this Chamber should have real fears about turning over 60 years of solid administrative jurisprudence and standing it on its head and how that will bring about disastrous results not only to the Commission but to all of the entities regulated by that body, because nobody is going to understand what this has done. Mr. Chairman, Charles James Fox wrote something called the ``India Resolution'' in 1783.…”