Political Quotes

“I do not rise for the purpose of asking for anything in this bill but simply asking for the Members to take note of what is happening here. At a time when all of our other bills have been so partisan, contentious, destructive of the comity of this House, we have a bill that sailed through committee, that is going to sail through this floor in just the way that our subcommittee chairman and ranking member and the Chairman and ranking member of the full Committee would like every appropriations bill to go through. So I would hope that the members of the Committee on Rules and the Members of the majority leadership would take note of what is happening today, what happens when you treat every Member with respect and evenhandedness. This bill deserves to be passed overwhelmingly. It is a fair bill. It is respectful of every Member in this body. The results are clear. I would hope for the sake of the chairmen of the other subcommittees that we could have more bills like this.”