Political Quotes

“I am here to talk about a committee that Ron Dellums chaired for 17 years, the Committee on the District of Columbia. I am here to speak for the people I represent in thanks and in great gratitude to Ronald Dellums. His attitude toward the city and toward the Minority during the time he chaired the Committee on the District of Columbia was a virtual model for this body. Toward the minority, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Bliley) will tell you there was collegial disputatiousness, always willing to join an issue, always as an officer and a gentleman joining an issue. Let me tell my colleagues as toward this city, I look at it now as what surely must be its low point as it rises; and I remember that Ron Dellums chaired the committee at its high point, perhaps second only to when the city got home rule. It was when he was chairman that we got a 40 percent increase of Federal payment to make up for years of no increase. Ron Dellums was no pushover.”