Political Quotes

“I did not see the movie ``Groundhog Day,'' but this reminds me of ``Groundhog Day.'' We have been here before. We wasted an entire week of the Senate's valuable time on the precise bill that the distinguished Senator from Georgia is now presenting to us as an alternative. I listened as the clerk read the language of the initial part of the bill, taking all the amounts that would be put aside to help schools and reducing them to a single dollar. In Virginia, we call that the shad treatment: You leave the skeleton but you surgically remove the entire skeletal structure so there is nothing remaining. Then you substitute a piece of legislation that has already passed this body, notwithstanding the fact that the authors and proponents of the legislation knew from the very beginning this particular bill would not be signed by the President. To suggest this is a possible new development or a surprise now, with all due respect, is a bit disingenuous. We have the same problem as before. We are trying to do an end run to bring about vouchers.”