David Thomas: “I think we are getting carried away with our own rhetoric. The gentlewoman from Connecticut just said this is the same…”

“I think we are getting carried away with our own rhetoric. The gentlewoman from Connecticut just said this is the same old Washington game. Apparently she does not understand that in the majority's legislation we end the same old Washington game. We say, ``You have to get a majority of your money from people who live back home.'' We say that the incumbents who had a monopoly on the Washington game do not get it anymore. Mr. Speaker, it is a fundamentally changed system, and I understand that a number of folk who are, and I will not yield at this point, there are a number of people who are getting carried away with their rhetoric. And I will tell my colleagues that if they do not like the majority's provision, if they do not like the minority's provision, I implore them to talk to the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Gephardt], the gentleman from California [Mr. Fazio], the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Frost]. Under this rule we have provided a motion to recommit with or without instructions.”