Political Quotes

“I would indicate my pleasure in working this out with the majority, and also indicate that the waiver provision in this amendment is very, very important. I want to take this time, rather than to talk about the en bloc amendments, to merely say what I had said at the beginning when we started this last week. I would ask the Members to keep in mind that after this got through the committee, the subcommittee, and the full committee, we had added 9 new programs, and we had put back in about 9 or 10 more old programs that were taken out, and we had a total of 23 new reporting requirements. I am saying this just so both sides of the aisle, before we start this amendment process, understand how far we have gone and how confused we have made this issue. Mr. Chairman, I would hope that they would resist the temptation to get up and add a lot more, because every time we add an authorization, somebody is going to get very upset about the legislation. Mr. Chairman, I also want to say to both sides of the aisle, but particularly to my side, I cannot stand up here and rail against the majority every time they are micromanaging and every time they are doing unfunded mandates, and then turn around and say when my side gets up and says, 'We should do these unfunded mandates, and we should micromanage State and local government,' that it is all right. It is wrong on both sides. I would hope my side of the aisle would be very reluctant to get up and try to micromanage.”