NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “I know he had a lot to say there and challenged to do it in a brief period of time. Again, before I yield to my friend…”

“I know he had a lot to say there and challenged to do it in a brief period of time. Again, before I yield to my friend from Georgia, let me respectfully suggest to my friend from New Jersey, again, as has been stated by my colleagues, this is not about leverage, this is about the future. It is about a free society, people of goodwill from opposite points of view agreeing to broad parameters, in terms of debate, upon which disagreements may be resolved. What is especially disturbing is that this pattern portends something that is less than the common good, because, in the words of columnist Robert J. Samuelson in the Washington Post 2 months ago, 'When one side continues to repeatedly distort the facts and the evidence, then the purpose is not to debate, it is to destroy.'”