Political Quotes

William R. Richardson: let me be perfectly candid. A corrections day implies a mistake. This is not a mistake. This is policy change. Would the…

On the recordSeptember 10, 1996
let me be perfectly candid. A corrections day implies a mistake. This is not a mistake. This is policy change. Would the gentleman explain to me where the mistake occurred? If we pass a piece of legislation, it is to advance a policy. The implication is, and the gentleman knows, that a Corrections Day Calendar is to correct a mistake. Where is a mistake in this legislation?
Said by
William R. Richardson
New Mexico

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the use of a Corrections Day Calendar in legislative proceedings.

Share

More from William R. Richardson

Feb 25, 2019

We absolutely need them to keep enforcing sanctions or the pressure on North Korea will deteriorate.

congress.gov
Feb 25, 2019

this was a concession in the first summit that we got nothing in return. So we should not concede that one again.

congress.gov
Mar 28, 2017

If we delay and not try to fix these problems sooner than later and it gets into a Mexican election, we, the United States, lose leverage by delaying.

congress.gov
Feb 25, 2019

But the sanctions that have, I think, bitten--that bite the most have been the coal, the uranium, the oil sanctions that are imposed now by the U.N.

congress.gov

Other voices in this conversation