Political Quotes

“I would submit there is an easy administrative procedure already in the law and that we are creating a bureaucracy through all of the machinations involved in this bill. This bill creates the problems in terms of creating the circumstance for a property transfer, problems that we have been all trying to fix. And that such property transfer, which this legislation would effect, sets and creates a bad precedent. I would like to further state that I do not believe that what we are submitting here is so much an attempt to sanctify the bureaucratic process as to insist on the preeminence of the legislative process; that, in fact, as Members of Congress, we are entitled to request full hearing on any legislation that comes before a committee. And while we engaged, I thought, in a constructive discussion in subcommittee, we were given assurances that we would have a full discussion in the full committee. Such a discussion has not occurred.”