Emanuel Cleaver actually said...

These laws are reminiscent of the poll taxes used in the Jim Crow South.

I want to give kudos to the -- to the Tea Party members because they pretty much had their way.

It's a bad bill. I voted 'no' after 250 something votes had already been registered so I knew that the bill was going to pass.

I think the American public and, in fact, the world probably won because we didn't blow up the U.S. economy and bring down the world economy...