Political Quotes

“I just wanted to include this in the Record and comment that in the 104th Congress, the Congress we are in right now, we have been in 36 days, 316 hours and 3 minutes of debate, 97 votes. It is unprecedented the amount of time we have spent here in this body to try to move things forward. We have cooled it off, we have debated it, and we got two bills passed. Only one has been signed into law. If you look at other Congresses through February, in the last Congress they were in 19 days, compared to 36, and only had 91 hours of debate. In 1991, 29 days in session, 145 hours of debate; 1989, 16 days in session, 43 hours of debate. The fact of the matter is we are working hard, we are debating long, and we are not accomplishing a whole heck of a lot. Cooling off is one thing; stonewalling is another. What we need to do, I implore my colleagues and the American public, is to rally to the defense of what the voters in November asked for, and move some things forward. I yield the floor.”