Political Quotes

“I am back with a bipartisan amendment for a small increase in EEOC funding. My bipartisan sponsor is the gentleman from Oklahoma, Mr. J.C. Watts. Mr. Watts had intended to sponsor this bill with me but at the time the offset on the bill kept him from doing so. I used that offset on the bill because it was my understanding that there was no way in which the prisons that are now under construction could be finished in time. The good chairman of the committee indicated that he had already taken that into account and that, therefore, somehow not even this very small amount of money, $13 million, could be extracted from the delay in prison construction. I am back with another idea, a .06 reduction across the board in this appropriation. It is so small but that it is hard to envision what amount of money that would be, but what it would do would be very great and very large. Mr. Chairman, we are divided in this House on what the remedy is for discrimination. We are not divided on the proposition that there must be remedy for discrimination.”