Political Quotes

“I wanted to take a second here this morning, or this afternoon now, and point out to the House and point out to the American people that this work that has been done on this issue, the first substantive and real substantive and meaningful effort to stop unfunded mandates, constructed by the great gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Clinger], my colleague from Ohio [Mr. Portman], the gentleman from California [Mr. Condit], who has worked tirelessly, a Democrat; I know there are more involved on both sides of the aisle. I mean, you think about that today we are going to pass unfunded mandates legislation that gives that committee and the Committee on the Budget the ability to come to this floor and stop the passing of unfunded mandates onto State and local governments. It is not about talk anymore. It is about doing, and we are doing it with Republicans and Democrats. They would be the first ones to tell you that this is a big step. We may do more things. We may have to fix this. But, you know what the bottom line is? We are keeping our word, and we are delivering exactly what our Governors and mayors and the people across the country have been calling for. Without Clinger and Portman and Condit and Davis and Jim Moran, it would not have gotten done.”