Political Quotes

“Well, and the good news is that this is information that we need as legislators, the American people need to see to make up their minds as to whether or not this is good legislation or not. We have a tool at our disposal. The tool is called a resolution of inquiry. And a resolution of inquiry can be filed at the committee level. And a resolution of inquiry has to be, after it is filed, has to be dealt with in 14 legislative days. I filed a resolution of inquiry for these documents down at the White House, that were arrived at down at the White House in May and June. I filed a resolution of inquiry right as we left December 17. The resolution is H. Res. 983 for anyone who might want to look that up on Thomas. And our Committee on Energy and Commerce will have 14 legislative days to deal with this. {time} 2030 Now, my expectation is that the committee will simply quash it. That may be, but at the same time I feel it is our obligation, as dutiful members of the minority, to bring to the American people some of these discrepancies. Now, part of the good news there is when I filed this, an article that was written in The Hill the day that we left town in December talked about this Resolution of Inquiry and had some interesting quotes from our chairman, Henry Waxman, on the resolution. And quoting from an article by Molly Hooper in The Hill on December 17, Mr. Waxman said, ``If there are such documents, Burgess should get them. I don't know if there are such documents.…”