Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, with apologies, lions and tigers and bears, oh my. I have to say that before somebody else does it. But we also have to realize, as we are going through the kleinigkeiten of this day's efforts, that this is one of those kleinigkeiten coming again here. We should also realize that Oz was not reality, it was a movie, and that reality TV is not that of which should be the basis of public policy. This bill, contrary to what I have been hearing so far, is not about protecting the public from big cats. It is about hurting small, family- run zoos across the country. It is a power play of some kind, which is one of the reasons why the Zoological Association of America expressed their grave concerns with this bill in a very pointed letter addressed to the committee chairman, that this represents an unwarranted Federal intrusion into the rights and responsibilities of wildlife exhibitors and will have significant negative impacts on federally licensed zoological facilities. Madam Speaker, the issue is that, under current law, anyone who has one of these exhibitions must obtain a class E exhibitor license, and that is given by the United States Department of Agriculture under the Animal Welfare Act.…”