Political Quotes

“it is very, very rare to sit as a Member of this body and to feel so strongly about the good of the legislation before us. I just want to go ``yes.'' But that is what I feel on this legislation. And for all we get up and gasp, one Member to another, about how we have been working together and all that, this time I mean it, the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Camp] and the gentlewoman from Connecticut [Mrs. Kennelly], I will forever appreciate and never forget how good their work has been. It is just fabulous. It is an emotional topic to me because I have adopted two children out of foster care. We got Katherine at 3 rac{1}{2} months and Scott at 4 rac{1}{2} months. They were babies. We could get on with the business of being a family. And we know that from that comes not just emotional dimensions of stability and security and self-esteem, but actually neurological development issues that are so critical to the ultimate opportunity and fate and lives that these little beings will have. We face the reality today that there are tens of thousands of precious lives out there in a state of limbo, unable to know where they are going to end up, unable to attach to the loving care-givers that they are spending their days with because they do not know whether they are not going to be with that care-giver anymore.”