Political Quotes

“we have worked very hard over the course of this week to address the people's business with the schedule that was set out weeks ago to address energy in a focused way, a way that would allow for debate and amendment, and bring to conclusion the debate on a bill that is important to every American listening to me now--every American. The President initially called for an Energy bill over 2 years ago and laid down a policy 3 months ago, and the House of Representatives has acted in delivering such a bill. As the distinguished assistant leader has mentioned, we have now spent 18 days debating energy policy. That is longer than any other bill this year and, in truth, as we all know in this body, we have been debating energy policy now for 3 years. It is true that during the last Congress, we spent 7 weeks on an Energy bill, and the other side of the aisle comes forward and says: We spent 7 weeks last year, so we are going to have to spend 7 weeks or 8 weeks or more time on this Energy bill. I appreciate their concern because I, too, want to make sure we address these issues thoroughly. But what we have is just obstruction, flat out obstruction of our commitment to answer to the American people when they ask: Where is our national energy policy?”