Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I objected to the last amendment for a very simple reason. The author of the amendment is making my case. This amendment makes my case. What is my case? My case is this bill should go to committee. It has so many problems, unthought-through, unintended consequences. This amendment recognizes that. This amendment says delay; delay for a year. Why delay? Because there are so many problems, because there are so many problems. The way to solve the problem is for us to deal with the problem in committee. That is the solution. I have made that point many times, many different places: the floor of the Senate, different private meetings. Finally, people are starting to realize all of their problems with this bill. Slowly they are starting to read it. Slowly they are starting to think about it. Slowly it is starting to sink in: Oh, my gosh, I did not think of that. Oh, that problem too affects businesses, not just businesses in nonsales-tax States, businesses across the country, all cross the country. This amendment makes my case. This amendment seeking a 1-year delay makes my case that there must be problems; we have to delay this bill. That is the basic reason I think we should not pass this bill. We should send it to the committee. I pledge to Members, my colleagues, my friends, the Finance Committee, which I chair, will hold a markup on this bill in the next work period. I made that pledge. I made that pledge.…”