Political Quotes

“let me add my voice to this for just a moment. For many of us who have chemical weapons stored in our State-- and there are a good many States--this piece of legislation becomes highly important because certain language we hope to be in this treaty will allow us to look for alternate sources other than burning or destroying by burning. And so particularly in my case, where we have the nerve gas, this treaty becomes vital to us. And to have it timely considered becomes a very important aspect of alternative sources under this international treaty. So I am here pleading for my constituency to eliminate the so-called chemical weapons. We are being held up for reorganization of the State Department, reorganization of United Nations, this thing or that thing. We are held up when we have a deadline of April 28 and we have people out there worried about chemical weapons and how you destroy them. We have the answer under this piece of legislation, but we cannot go forward with it. Mr. President, I hope you will listen to my friend from New Mexico, that there is going to be an effort to bring this piece of legislation up because of the deadline. If we worried about deadlines, we would have a budget. We do not have a budget. But this is an international treaty, and it has a deadline. And for one, I do not want to miss it because of the chemical weapons that need to be destroyed and the way they are to be destroyed so that we might protect your constituents.”