David Thomas: “Frankly, this gentleman from California is confused. I have to tell my colleagues on the other side, they cannot have it…”

“Frankly, this gentleman from California is confused. I have to tell my colleagues on the other side, they cannot have it both ways. Either we are not doing the job that the people want us to do and we should fund the committees more, or we get criticized because we are funding the committees more because we are not doing the job that we are supposed to do. The gentleman from Connecticut wants us to move campaign finance reform. The gentleman from Maryland gets up and says 'the constituents want us to know what is going on.' Well, I think if anybody paid attention at all in the last election, there was a lot going on in the gentleman's party, in his national party and over at the White House, and that if we are going to write meaningful campaign reform, we ought to find out what was going on. But we are criticized because we do not rush to the floor with a solution to whatever the problem is, because we have not had a chance to examine it.”