Harlan Mathews said "I think we are approaching a time when the procedures which we have devised and developed as a body here to carry out our constitutional responsibility to advise and consent are becoming so burdensome as to discourage good people from seeking office. I think we spend an awful lot of our time today, unfortunately, reacting to what someone might surmise is going on in this country rather than really dealing with the truth of what is there. I join my colleague and say that the time is coming when we must stand up, when we must do some things here to let good people know that there is a way for them to serve their Government without putting them through all sorts of demeaning exercises and processes that we devise for our own benefit, perhaps." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordApril 13, 1994

I think we are approaching a time when the procedures which we have devised and developed as a body here to carry out our constitutional responsibility to advise and consent are becoming so burdensome as to discourage good people from seeking office. I think we spend an awful lot of our time today, unfortunately, reacting to what someone might surmise is going on in this country rather than really dealing with the truth of what is there. I join my colleague and say that the time is coming when we must stand up, when we must do some things here to let good people know that there is a way for them to serve their Government without putting them through all sorts of demeaning exercises and processes that we devise for our own benefit, perhaps.

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Harlan Mathews

Democratic · Tennessee

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Editor's note · Context

Congratulating a colleague and discussing the burdensome procedures in government.

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