Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I appreciate that the rule makes in order several amendments for the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. These are amendments that we heard about that both the members of the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees have proposed, but we also heard last night in the Rules Committee that there are many important amendments the Committee blocked and that the full House won't get to consider. The process on this could indeed have been better. What I wonder now is do we even have the votes to pass this rule? We need to be able to get to a point where we are taking up on the floor of the House rules that are going to get the votes. As we know, they have already defeated six of their own rules. These are important matters, and I think it is important that we get to do the work. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire how much time I have remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. D'Esposito). The gentlewoman has 13\1/4\ minutes remaining.”