Political Quotes

“let me begin by agreeing with everything the gentleman from California [Mr. Cox] just said. All of those things really did happen. The company that shipped that container-load of AK-47's into our country is the Chinese Ocean Shipping Co. We on the Committee on National Security this year passed an amendment which would ban that company, or any state-owned shipping company, from leasing or operating an American port that used to be a military installation that has reverted back to a local community. Unfortunately, the Senators chose not to do so, and it was dropped out of the conference committee report. I want to go back to some things that were said earlier, that this bill is great because we authorize the President to do some things. One of the things we are as Members of Congress expected to do is read the Constitution of the United States, and any Member who reads the Constitution of the United States knows that in section 1 it talks about the powers of the Members of Congress. One of those powers will be debated twice today, because it involves Article I, section 8, clause 3 of the Constitution, which clearly gives Congress, and I am quoting, ``the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations.'' What the gentlewoman from Florida [Mrs. Fowler] is trying to do here is to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and I have no problem with that because she is trying to slap the Chinese for their wrongful deeds.…”