Political Quotes

“I thank my fellow Texan and colleague for her timely remarks. I think the American public really would be interested in what she talked about with the criminal background history that this Commission wants. I know that there are a lot of people--both Democrats and Republicans, quite frankly, people of all political stripes--that made mistakes when they were younger and now maybe they go and vote. They are good Americans. They assimilate themselves into society. They have learned from their mistakes, and they would be very disturbed to know that this sort of information about something that they did when they were 21 years old and now they are 40-something years old, they would be very disturbed to know that this type of information was being collected. I thank her for raising that issue. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Payne), my friend, to also speak on this issue. I thank him for taking the time to come out here today and share some of the concerns that he has.”