Political Quotes

“I rise to oppose this rule, but I want to make it clear that I support this bill. I think we will find that many Members, at least on the Democratic side of the aisle, will vote against the rule even though they do support the bill itself. Now why would we vote against the rule if we support the bill itself? We have a responsibility to learn as much as we can about what we are voting on. There are a thousand pages in this bill. None of us will have read it. What we have to do is to take on faith what is contained in the bill. None of us would read all of the bill, even if we went by regular order and had an entire day. But what we would do is to look at those components of the bill that we have worked on personally, that we understand fully, and that we can advise our colleagues on. We do not have that ability when a thousand-page bill is presented at 3:30 in the morning and then the next morning we have to vote on it. That is what is going to happen today. I think our constituents expect more from us. They expect us to be better informed. Why are we going to support the bill? What are we taking on faith? Well, this bill would accomplish 10-year deficit savings of $900 billion. Think of how important this bill is. Nine hundred billion dollars in reduced spending over the next 10 years. It would accomplish the first balanced budget since 1969. It has $24 billion in block grants for children's health covering 5 million currently uninsured children.”