Political Quotes

“reclaiming my time, because my experience with waiver provisions has been that it not only creates a huge paperwork backlog, there is the question in the mind of applicants whether they can achieve the waiver, there is a huge time lag, and when it comes to attracting quality people, you need to move very quickly sometimes to get the people who otherwise could take 2 or 3 or 4 different jobs. They just do not work. It sounds great on paper, but operationally, these are just not successful. Finally, let me just say, we want to bring people to the Nation's capital because they want to live there, not because that is the only way they can keep their job. We want people who want to live here because it is a safe city, because they can get their kids an education here, because the garbage is picked up, because the city will be able to attract the best and brightest from throughout the metropolitan region. This legislation does not allow that. This says only 1 in 5 are eligible to come and work in the city, despite these waivers provisions and others that are not administered very well. In fact, the political pressure is not to grant waivers from some of the groups within the city, and it just does not satisfy the requirement. So, despite I think the best intentions of my friend from the District of Columbia, I have to rise to oppose the amendment, and ask my friends to join with me in trying to make the Nation's capital a model city throughout the country.”