Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I think that if Thomas Jefferson had just dropped back into this body, he would think he was Alice in Wonderland because when he wrote the wonderful ``Jefferson Manual of Parliamentary Procedure,'' he made it very clear that we had two bodies in this government, the Senate and the House; and each was to act independently one from the other in order to come up with what was right for the American people. We are now told today that we are supposed to except a compromise that the Senators compromised on and then left town to go home to celebrate their holiday. Ladies and gentlemen, I don't think that's appropriate. I think we should do what the system called for when our Founding Fathers put it together, that is, they do their business, we do our business, and we do what we think is right. We are trying to do what we think is right here today. This resolution includes many parts. One of those parts that I think is extremely important is the Boiler MACT part. It had 41 Democrat votes in this House. It has 13 Democrat cosponsors in the Senate. It is a very bipartisan and popular measure, and I hope we adopt the resolution.”