Political Quotes

“I appreciate the comments from my colleagues from Connecticut and Massachusetts. I can't think of one person out of 535 Members of Congress that wants terrorists to have a firearm. Certainly not. That is not something that is even in question. I do find it very interesting, especially from my colleague from Massachusetts--and which we sit together on the Rules Committee--to bring up a point of something that, I would say, he advocates for daily on this floor and in this body and, that is, to follow regular order to allow pieces of legislation to go through the committee process, to allow every Member of this body to have their input, to have their say, to be able to amend, to be able to argue, to be able to debate, to allow it to go through the process that this body stands for, until today when it is their side of the aisle's idea that they have to move an issue forward. They say: Let's circumvent regular order, let's bring something that has not gone through the committee process, that has not allowed every Member of this body to weigh in on, to debate, to bring up amendments, to make their feelings known. Let's only do it when it is not their idea. That is the message I am getting. So, Mr. Speaker, I certainly appreciate the enormity of the issue before us. We are working on many bills in this legislative body to deal with the issue of terrorism in front of us as a Nation and as a world.…”