Political Quotes

“The Contract With America Advancement Act: what a true abuse of the English language. If this is an advancement of the Contract With America, the one thing it demonstrates is that some of our Republican colleagues cannot tell backward from forward. Let us look at what is included in this great advancement of the Contract With America failed agenda. Well, the first thing is an increase in the Social Security earnings limit. A laudable measure. So laudable that 411 Members of this body last year voted to approve it, and only four voted against it. Our seniors would have this Social Security earnings limit adjusted already if our Republican colleagues had advanced it at the beginning of this Congress instead of at this point. What is the second item? Regulatory reform. Far different from the regulatory wreckage of the unilateral disarmament of our health and safety laws that they proposed last year. Again, if they had advanced this very modest regulatory reform, our small businesses across America would have had relief in 1995, not a promise in 1996. Finally and most important, it advances the contract through the line-item veto.”