Political Quotes

“Madam Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Chair, as we approach this particular piece of legislation, there are other issues that seem to be floating around at this time of year that seem to have sucked all the air out of Congress. Everyone seems to be talking about impeachment instead of this stuff. But I realize it is important for the majority party to try and give the illusion that we are actually doing something, and, therefore, we have this bill before us. If this bill is indeed the vision that the majority party wants to say is their way of helping climate control or helping the costs and the betterment of our seas and oceans, if this is their philosophy, if this is their vision, and if this is their new, really big and giant kind of really cool thing that they are going to bring out here as their statement of what is going to happen, then they ought to be embarrassed in some way. This bill is like getting that Christmas package, and once you tear off all the pretty wrapping paper and the satin bows, Madam Chair, you will realize, and Americans will realize, this piece of legislation is an empty box. There is nothing there. There are 10 bills that we have here. Three would actually qualify to go as suspensions. We have no qualms with those. But it is certainly not groundbreaking new ideas that are coming up here. In fact, one of those bills is the one from Mr. Kilmer. He has a great bill.…”