Political Quotes

“I find the gentlewoman's comments disturbing for this reason. What we really heard her say, and what we are hearing on this motion is, we are only going to deal with something when it is a crisis. And that is all we are going to deal with is what is the crisis of the moment. That is a poor way to do public policy. In fact, when the other side of the aisle had the opportunity to offer an alternative to the energy bill, they did not include these reliability standards in the opportunity that was offered in the committee, nor the second time when it was offered on the floor, nor the third time when they offered an alternative on the motion to recommit. So three chances, and then their lights went out. Now we have a crisis, and now this is all we are going to deal with, when it was not something they wanted to deal with in the bill to begin with from their side. Why would we jettison additional funding for LIHEAP when we know that natural gas prices are going through the roof and the poorest among us are going to have trouble paying their heating bills this winter?”