Political Quotes

“let me say to the previous speaker that yes, two plus two equals four. Fact: Why are liberals for this bill and why are conservatives against it? No question about it, this bill in its present form coddles criminals and makes it tough on law enforcement officials. Mr. Speaker, the frustration caused by the arrogant Democrat leadership around here would be almost unbearable to me, who has been here for 16 years, were it not for the fact that elections are less than 6 months down the road, and boy, are things going to change. Mr. Speaker, 104 Members took the time to draft and submit and to testify on some 180 amendments before our Committee on Rules on this crime bill. We took 12 hours of testimony from these 104 Members. In addition, yesterday we put in another 4 hours up in the Rules Committee just marking up this rule. Now 46 Republicans on this side and 45 Democrats on that side are being denied their constitutional rights, your constitutional rights to represent the 600,000 people back home. That is 25 percent of this body being shut out of the legislative process, 45 Democrats and 46 Republicans who are the victims of this drive-by procedural mugging. That is right, Members are being mugged. This rule denying your amendments is almost identical to the gag rule the Democrat leadership tried to foist on us just before recess 2 weeks ago when we voiced our strong opposition on this floor and the press was here watching it. The Democrats pulled the bill. Why?…”