Political Quotes

“we have traveled a long way with the D.C. College Access Act. From March 4 when we introduced it, to markup in our subcommittee, unanimous approval in the Committee on Government Reform chaired by the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Burton); to House passage on May 24, and then on to October 19, passage in the Senate with friendly amendments which we are pleased to accept today. I am deeply proud of our hard work. My thanks to the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton), the ranking member of the subcommittee on the District of Columbia and all of the original cosponsors: The gentlewoman from Maryland (Mrs. Morella), the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Wynn), the gentleman from California (Mr. Horn), the gentleman from California (Mr. Cunningham), the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Ehrlich) and the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Moran). My thanks to Speaker Hastert, Chairman Dan Burton and Majority Leader Dick Armey for their support and for permitting expeditious consideration of this. And my thanks to the Clinton administration and the Department of Education for working with us in a bipartisan spirit of cooperation to work out our differences and move this thing through for consideration. My thanks to the D.C. Appropriations Chair Ernest Istook and his Senate counterpart, Kay Bailey Hutchison, for including the money in the budget recommended by the administration.”