Political Quotes

“I want to applaud the truly bipartisan team so ably lead by the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Shays) and the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Meehan) who have brought us yet again this year to the success that we have seen today on sticking together and doing the right thing. I want to thank the Speaker of the House for honoring his commitment to allow this legislation to come to the floor with a full and fair debate in September of this year, and we will complete this business in a few moments. The truth is, any minority party is going to support reform and any majority party is going to oppose reform because it is basically essential, they believe, to preserve the current system for their benefit, and therein lies the problem. This bill is the best effort in 25 years to make major strides towards cleaning up the current system. The American people expect us to do that. I believe that this is a decision for the ages that we will make in a few minutes.”