Political Quotes

“during the last several years, in fact, during the entire time I have been in Congress, there has been an explosion of comment about returning matters to the States. This has been evidenced in a number of pieces of legislation we passed, including those in the last Congress dealing with immigration reform and especially that dealing with welfare reform. Matters have been returned to the States. Why? Because there have been feelings of many that there was an accumulation of power here in Washington that had taken away from the basic foundation of our constitutional form of Government. Too much power was being developed and too much power actually existed in Washington, DC, in the Federal level of Government. Mr. President, as a result of that, we, most everybody in Congress, have felt that we needed to return things to the States and have the chief executive of that State have the say of what goes on within the confines of that State. That is what this amendment deals with.”