Political Quotes

“in a Congress that has been full of outrageousness, what we have seen here this afternoon represents by far the greatest outrage of all. To imagine that the Republican leadership, as announced by the majority leader, could get together in a secret meeting and plot to deny the American people an opportunity to have a bipartisan discussion and debate about how to clean up our corrupt campaign finance system is incredible. The majority leader has placed this matter on the docket for action on a day that many Members of this body will be at the funeral of a distinguished statesman, a Republican colleague, the late Honorable Steve Schiff in Albuquerque. Unfortunately, on Monday, it will not only be Mr. Schiff who is buried, but campaign finance, an incredible action in which Members are denied any opportunity to offer an amendment, any opportunity to debate beyond 20 minutes per side, and in which, if after all those contortions to defeat campaign finance, if that is not enough, if only a simple majority of this body should vote for campaign finance reform, it would be defeated because they demand a two-thirds vote. A disgrace has occurred here today.”