NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “I think we could do with a lot more light, and a lot less heat. I think it is unfortunate when members of the minority…”

“I think we could do with a lot more light, and a lot less heat. I think it is unfortunate when members of the minority, and we can understand that different people have different philosophies and that we should exchange those, but to have reason and, to a certain degree, passion replaced by a sad rhetorical device to imply that anyone's policies on this floor led to the death of an individual I think is highly regrettable. I would hope that those on both sides of the aisle would rethink that type of rhetoric, because again, it has no place in this Chamber. Indeed, given the standards that many have applied to the conservative side of the aisle, I would hope that they would offer the same scrutiny to such unfortunate statements that come from the other side. The bottom line is this: We can work together in the framework of what we did last year, balancing the budget for the first time in a generation; offering tax cuts to working folks for the first time in 16 years; and I would hope that all of the poll-driven rhetoric and all of the passion-driven examples that are highly regrettable would be left outside the Chamber.”