Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Texas. I want to pick up on where my friend from Arizona left off regarding the comments about my good friend and colleague from Washington regarding regular order. It is not regular order. If we have regular order, we have amendments. I have an amendment that would protect small business. I don't get a chance to do that. We would under regular order. But let's not forget, there is not just one committee that is getting rolled here. Rules Committee is getting rolled. And if this was to follow regular order and go to rules, every single one of you would be able to offer amendments in that committee. They would probably get shot down, as mine have since I have been here, but at least you could offer them. Furthermore, if it went to Rules Committee, you could have debate; you could participate and debate on the issues. What is getting ready to happen here in a few minutes is Mr. Fincher will control 1 hour of debate, he will speak for 5, and then yield back, denying every single one of you in this Chamber the opportunity to speak for at least half an hour each side on this particular issue. This is not regular order, Mr. Speaker. This is shoving something down the American people's throats. Let's have regular order. Let's have the amendments. I have got some ones you might actually enjoy. Let's have the debate. But let's not kid ourselves into thinking this is regular order because it is not.”