Political Quotes

“to use the old tired Yogi Berra saying, it is deja vu all over again. That is right, here we go again. Was it not during the House banking scandal when the Democratic leadership worked the phones to deny a full-disclosure vote a few years ago? Here we go again. The gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr. Istook] has a very good resolution requiring the ethics committee to investigate as long as it does not interfere with the Justice Department. What is wrong with that? Once again, the Democratic leadership is opposed and wants to give its Members cover with the Gephardt resolution which really does nothing. That is right, nothing. It allows the ethics committee to keep on doing what it has been doing the last 2 years: nothing. Please, my colleagues, vote ``no'' on the Gephardt resolution and give us a vote, a real vote, with teeth in it on the Istook resolution.”