Political Quotes

“I will use his exact term--lunacy. Talk about the death tax, that is, the estate tax, at the same time you are talking about Medicare prescription drugs, the vast majority of people, the vast, vast majority--over 98 percent--of the people on Medicare have no relevance to the estate tax. Why he would bring up the estate tax at the same time we are talking about Medicare prescription drugs is beyond my ability to comprehend. I would also say he talks about why we bring up some of these bills without going through the committee. We do not do that very often, but we have done it. When we were in the minority, it was done all the time. We have seen a number of these measures being brought up because of what has gone on after September 11. Take terrorism insurance. We passed that. It was really good legislation. The President told us how much it was needed. It took us a long time to get the bill up because they objected to it. Now they will not let us go to conference on this bill.”