Political Quotes

“I offered this democracy amendment in the full Committee on Appropriations, and I appreciate the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton) offering it today on the House floor, because she is the democratically elected representative of the District of Columbia, and she well knows that most of the provisions in this appropriations bill do not belong in any Federal appropriations bill. There are 72 provisions at last count, 17 new ones in the bill this time. We have a couple dozen provisions that are either already part of Federal law, other parts of Federal law that do not need to be here for any purpose, or are in the D.C. Code. D.C. is legally required to do these things. It is in their law. What are we doing keeping this stuff in the D.C. appropriations bill? It is sort of just making sure that that heel stays deep on D.C.'s throat so that they do not ever think that they can run their own affairs. Let us get rid of this junk. It is detritus. It does not belong on an appropriations bill.”