Political Quotes

“Just briefly, if the gentleman, Madam Speaker, could assure us that there would be no Senate filibuster or hold on the bill, Senator Reid would have been happy to accept our changes. But he estimated he couldn't get that through the Senate, so he agreed to a fix in a subsequent bill. He put it in writing, and we have to accept his written commitment to do that. I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. LaTOURETTE. Oh, my pleasure, and my appreciation of you grows every day. But I will tell you what; if you can crack the code of the Senate, Republican or Democrat, then you deserve much more money than you are making as the chairman of the full committee, because they are a strange bunch. It doesn't matter who is in charge; they don't seem to do anything. Now, I want to get to the process now, because the President down at this health care summit down at Blair House said nobody cares about process. But I have got to tell you, I have never seen this. This is my 16th year in the United States Congress. When Mr. Etheridge made his motion, it says, ``Mr. Etheridge moves that the House concur in the Senate amendment to the House amendment to the Senate amendment with an amendment.'' The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.”