Political Quotes

“it is my pleasure, as I rise this morning, to join my colleagues in support of S. 1, the unfunded mandates bill that Senator Kempthorne and many others have done such great work on. In the recent election, of course, this country and the voters of this country voted for change, a change in the way that Washington operates, a change in the way that the Government operates. This bill provides us with one of the first opportunities to deliver that change. It seems to me that, although we will take up a great many specific issues throughout this session of Congress, and we should, that probably most important are some of the structural changes that we are talking about--this being included as one of them. Some of the changes in procedure will result in the individual issues being changed and being about the change that voters asked for. Sometimes, I suppose, people at home get a little impatient with the idea that we work for procedural changes.”