Rob Bishop: “I've actually been trying to think of a lot of metaphors here, and I don't think any of them really work terribly well.…”

“I've actually been trying to think of a lot of metaphors here, and I don't think any of them really work terribly well. Except I do remember one time when my oldest kid was about 3 or 4. He had been given a candy bar and was supposed to participate in a program, and he didn't want to go up and join the other kids in the program. So I took his candy bar away. I said, If you go up there and perform, I'll give you a candy bar. Of course, he was dumb enough to accept that, and he waddled right up there and did the program, and I gave him his candy bar back. I hope that people don't think, just by giving me my candy bar back, I'm going to buy this program, because the program hasn't changed. It is still fundamentally flawed. A reporter just asked me, Don't you think these bills should have an up-down vote? Well, here in the House, everything is an up-down vote. Also, the bills that have been introduced by Representative Shadegg and by Representative Price have a different approach to solving the problem and to reforming our system, which is based on giving power to the people so that people can make choices. Representative Akin, I think they deserve an up-down vote in this body as well. Instead, they have been prohibited from even being discussed in committee or on the floor.”