Political Quotes

“This helps Members, then, to better understand the inner workings of the Rules Committee, what we have done for Members, and what Senator McCain is endeavoring to do. It lays out my concerns that it is important that we run this initial test, whereby Members of the U.S. Senate can now put this material out or the committees of the Senate can put this material out. Let's make some assessment over the next few months of what it costs, what staff are involved, and to the extent there is an interest out there in the public for this very voluminous amount of information that is created by CRS. It may well be in the due course of time we will take a further step towards the goals Mr. McCain has in his amendment. So for the time being we oppose the amendment and ask Senators to entrust to the Committee on Rules and Administration the proper analysis of the objective by Senator McCain, as well as the costs associated with it and the desirability, in the public domain, for the dissemination of this information.”