Political Quotes

“everything sounds so good, it is almost hard to believe it. The general public out there believes that we are applying the same rules to our own institution as we apply to them. That is not true. That is not true. In the Americans With Disabilities Act, for instance, we excluded title II. We hear this rhetoric that we put that in. We excluded title II. Title II is buildings and transportation. You wait until we have to change the other subway. That is fine, but the last one cost $16 million. I wonder what the others are going to cost. That is not coming out of my pocket or the Senator's pocket; it is coming out of the taxpayer's pocket. The congressional exemptions in the statutes as provided by this bill will do a lot of things. If the same laws are applied to Congress as to the private sector, the statutory provisions must be the same. The statutory provisions are not the same. The remedies available to employees must be the same, the regulations must be the same, and the provisions for judicial enforcement and review must be the same as it applies to the private sector. But, no, we do not do that. We do not do that. No, we do not. The Republican bill creates a special agency, creates a special agency, to enforce selective provisions of law to the Congress.”