Political Quotes

“The reason why we are not having amendments debated on the House floor is because of the internal politics of the Democratic caucus. Mr. Speaker, the Democrats cannot allow certain amendments to come to the floor or they will lose people within their own caucus for final passage of this bill, and so what they have done is they have gone inside themselves and they have produced a rule that ensures that tough amendments cannot come to the floor. What they want to be able to do is talk tough and act weak. Yes, Mr. Speaker, what we have on this floor is a lot of tough talk and one of the weakest bills that one could possibly imagine. This is a bill that will make thugs and thieves very happy. Why will it make thugs and thieves very happy? Because it does not just preserve the status quo. That it does is actually weakens present law. It ensures that we will probably never be able to carry out death penalty provisions. It ensures that more technicalities will be in the law for people to get off. Yet it simply ensures that thugs and thieves across this country will find in the Federal law more respite than they have in the past.”