Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I do not want to delay this. I know what my friend, the gentleman from Pennsylvania, wants to accomplish. I want to assure him that in the amendment as published in section 306, the savings provision covers exactly what he should worry about, in that we do not interfere or supersede with any existing law operation. As a matter of fact, in setting this up, I worked a great deal with my friend, the gentleman from West Virginia, Mr. Mollohan's transfer center in West Virginia. It is an ideal type of operation. We want to encourage that type of operation. Mr. Chairman, there is nothing in this law that interferes with or supplements existing law. What it does is allows us to cover the loopholes in the law. Mr. Chairman, what I would suggest as to why we cannot accept the amendment of the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Walker] is that the gentleman's amendment prevents the labs from using the services.”