Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, a vote for the Schumer-Conyers-Chapman amendment is a vote of no confidence in the local public officials. Your mayors, your township officials, your municipal officers elected by the voters to make decisions at their level on what is best for their streets, for their neighborhoods, for their public safety contingents, this constitutes no confidence in them and, as a matter of fact, a condemnation of their abilities to govern their own municipalities. That is the difference that we are trying to determine over on this side when we offer this elastic, flexible program which will allow these local officials to respond to their local voters and taxpayers. Now, what is the difference between what we are attempting to do here and what occurred under LEAA? That was a bipartisan measure, as I remember, and that served its purpose at that time. If there was any difference between that and this which you now decry, you on the other side of the aisle, it might be this: that today we have the expanded coverage of C-SPAN, we have total communications from individual Members of Congress to their constituents and vice versa.”