Political Quotes

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Idaho (Mr. Simpson) to explain why mandatory spending is good.

This hearing, as far as understanding truth of what went on, and coming up with a good history, is going to be invalid.

the Magnuson-Stevens Act is not just for the conservation and management of fishery resources, but also to assure that our citizens benefit from employment, food supply, and revenue which could be generated from these resources.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 2 minutes. This bill is actually extremely poorly drafted. It assumes basic things. But if, for instance, as we said, the royalties don't show up as we are anticipating, we don't have that $1 billion to buy more…