Political Quotes

“I indicated about 2 weeks ago on the floor that I do not think there is going to be any surprise that the majority entertains a majority of approximately 240 votes more or less, and that all of the legislation the majority wishes to adopt in the House of Representatives will be able to be completed and concluded to its intentions. It seems to me that rather than now interfere with our relationship and our communications with our constituents, since the debate process really is not for the purposes of communicating with our constituents, or educating our constituents or ourselves for that matter, why do we not just move along with the 100-day contract over the next 2 weeks, bring it in under an hour closed rule and have it adopted so that we can get this foolishness out of the way and get on to the serious substantial business of the House of Representatives.”