Willie Hefner: “this just shows how far we are into a political campaign. Here we have a bill that nobody knows anything about, that…”

I do not understand why anybody would be confused, this being an exercise in lawyers here and all the technical things we have talked about. Let me just mention something here. I have been here longer than most of the people that have…

Could I ask some of the proponents of the highway bill, which I tend to support, but I do not like explaining a Lawrence Welk type boondoggle, if that is what it is, what is the rationale for it?

I would tell him that he is running a travesty, and he is running a dictatorial type of Committee on Rules, and he is writing the legislation of what comes before this House, and he is doing it with an overriding hand. Nobody has any…

Serving in this body has been something that I could never have dreamed about when I was a kid growing up in rural Alabama. I had never been to the capital of Alabama, Montgomery, let alone to think someday I would be able to come to the…