Political Quotes

“let me say first that I want to congratulate the principal sponsors of this, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Ney) and the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer). Their work, along with the others on the committee, have really done a tremendous service for the country by moving this issue forward. I join my colleague, the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Lewis), when he says that this is a necessary step towards election reform. It was just a year ago today that the Supreme Court ruled and stopped the vote counting in Florida. It was an international disgrace the way that the process unfolded, and with so many people's votes were discarded by machinery that did not work, or processes that did not comply with what was necessary to have every single person being able to cast a vote and to have that vote counted. This bill moves us towards real election reform. It is imperfect, but it is part of a process in which I think that this is a bill that is much better than any of us could have hoped for leaving the House.”