Political Quotes

“a meaningful reform of the way Federal campaigns are conducted has been obstructed by one Republican roadblock after another. Yesterday, half of the route was cleared. It did take a letter from the President saying he would convene a special session to deal with this issue if necessary. It took the leadership of the minority leader to say that no committees would meet. And yet, the reform is proceeding in half this Capitol building in Washington. Outside the people's House, there is a giant ``yield right of way sign.'' It says ``yield right of way to the arrogance of a Republican leadership that will not schedule 1 minute of debate on this issue.'' It is a giant ``yield right of way sign'' to the special interests who keep dumping in more and more soft money to soften up this Republican leadership. Well, today we are escalating the action for reform and demanding that this issue be considered not only in the Senate, but here in the House, so that there can be genuine bipartisan reform to address this arrogance.”