Political Quotes

“First of all, I know at least for myself I would rather be home with my wife on Valentine's Day, but we are here and in order to clean out the creek, we have to get the hogs out of the water first. What we need to focus in on here, we have heard from the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Shays). He is against this amendment. We have heard from the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Meehan). He is against it. The people who are the promoters of campaign finance here in the House are against this amendment and those people who have spent every amount of energy and intellect on trying to stop and derail this bill, they are for this amendment. So, now we should not need, as the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Kingston) said when he opened this debate, to bring a great deal of intellectual curiosity of this. The co-sponsors of the bill are against the amendment. They said it did not show up last night. It was in in July. Either when that information was offered, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Weldon) who was arguing that point, still said, well, I am going to vote for it anyway. Do not let the facts get in your way. Let us try nonetheless if we can to honor our two colleagues who have worked so hard to bring us to this moment, and let us take their word for what it is they are trying to accomplish. Those of us who support Shays-Meehan, let us vote against this amendment.”