Political Quotes

“to the Senator from California, I thank her for being here in this discussion today about a very important public policy issue. It is December and most people know that high jinks happen in December around here. People want to go home. People are doing last- minute deals. I don't know if the Senator from California knows, but the whole deregulation of Enron and the energy markets--that whole thing was a December midnight rider kind of activity. All of these things happen because they know that Members want to go home. They think it is the last deal and they can throw something in and everybody will go along with it and blame it on, oh, I didn't read the fine print. There are a couple of things in here that I just wanted to ask the Senator from California about. I am going to talk later. I wanted to get over here and ask her because she is a knowledgeable person on this. First, this rider that was placed in the WRDA bill--is that in the jurisdiction of your committee?”