Political Quotes

“I yield myself 1 minute. My good friend from Ohio, for whom I have the most enormous respect, sent a letter to the appropriating subcommittee, which I will insert the entirety of in the Record because I know the gentleman has forgotten sending the letter, in which the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Oxley], the chairman of the committee, the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Bliley], and the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Shuster], and this letter written to you, to my good friend, the gentleman from California [Mr. Lewis], "Therefore, we respectfully request that you include in your subcommittee mark of the VA- HUD appropriations bill an appropriation for the Superfund program of at least $1.5 billion in new budgetary authority," quite different from what my friend from Ohio tells us today. I would also remind my good friend from Ohio that last year, out of the Committee on Commerce came a bill passed 44 to nothing which was endorsed and supported by the administration, by industry, by the environmentalists and by everybody on the committee.”