Political Quotes

“I would suggest this kind of partisan language would not be appropriate in any legislation. I assume the goal of the gentleman from California (Mr. Waxman) is not to politicize science and research, yet I respectfully suggest that is what this amendment does. And the comments of the gentleman on the floor were sort of blasting the Bush administration for some of the things that they have done. I am chairman of the Subcommittee on Research, and the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson) is the ranking member of that subcommittee. In fact, all of the members on that committee, Republicans and Democrats, and on the full Committee on Science work very diligently to not politicize what we are doing in science and research in this country. This amendment requires that a commission be created to study the politicization of science by the Bush administration. What we all sort of agree is, politicizing this is what we are doing with this amendment. I urge my colleagues, I urge the Democrats not to start, even though it is an election year and we are approaching the election, not to start politicizing.”