Political Quotes

“one of the problems we have with this amendment is it should be in the authorization bill rather than our bill. But at any rate, it would really be very difficult for us to apply something like this. I understand what the gentlewoman is trying to do, but I would hope that the gentlewoman would withdraw this amendment and let us see what we can work out, because we have a lot of ``buy American'' provisions. This is kind of a new wrinkle to it. But we have an awful lot of operational problems that we might run into if we prohibited some of these things from being done. For instance, I remember the Roberts was first taken into a port in Dubai, I think it was, and then we finally shipped it back to the United States. But I think we need some more time to look at this. I appreciate your thoughts, and I know we will work with you trying to come up with something.”