Political Quotes

“It is Thursday night, and we have no idea how many amendments are left. I am curious what the strategy is. The chairman would probably have a better idea than I would. He has been here a long, long time. But it seems to me this is pretty classic policy discussion. Does the chairman believe that this kind of approach is the right approach? Or does he believe this is picking winners and losers and skating close to an industrial policy, and is bad? If you believe it is bad, you vote against it. If you believe it is good, you try to promote the right kind of investments, then you support this. But it seems to me that we are in the process here in which a bill that had almost had no opposition gets to the floor, and 4 days later we are not able to get to the nub of the policy to vote yes or no on it because folks, at their own time, will offer amendments that may or may not be germane, may or may not relate to the subject, may or may not be involved with the industrial policy or economic growth. So the question is, do we ever get to advance this issue? Do we ever get to vote on it? That is the question.”