Political Quotes

“It is unfortunate, I think, that we are wasting the time of the U.S. Congress debating what should or should not happen in Wisconsin. We have a process in place that works. Most everybody here has acknowledged that, to take care of these States that are doing their own and requesting waivers and so forth. We are a national body. If we are going to spend the time of this Congress on the floor on welfare, it seems to me we ought to be discussing a national welfare bill. We have introduced, a bipartisan group, H.R. 3266, that is consistent in many ways with the provisions of the Wisconsin plan. It has bipartisan support. The President has indicated he can work with us to resolve a few outstanding issues on that. It seems to me that if the Republican leadership wanted to help Wisconsin and all the other 49 States in this country, we could bring a national welfare bill to the floor like H.R. 3266 which gives not only Wisconsin but all the other States the ability to make the changes they need to make, want to make and vote to make, without all this nonsense and windbagging on the floor today about who said what or when.”