Political Quotes

“The bill before us is to provide a modest degree of relief, the reimbursement of attorney's fees and costs incurred by former employees of the White House Travel Office who were fired at the beginning of the Clinton administration and one of whom was unsuccessfully prosecuted. That bill has passed the House of Representatives. If the Senate were permitted to pass it, it would go to the President and, I presume, be signed. It is not particularly controversial. But the majority leader of the Senate has been unable to get consent from the other side of the aisle simply to pass that bill and send it to the President without conditions being imposed upon that consent. So now this modest House resolution has had included with it a reduction in the tax on motor vehicle fuel, the 4-plus-cents-a-gallon tax that was imposed in 1993. At the time at which it was imposed, at the time at which that tax hike was passed, every Member on the Republican side of the aisle voted against it.”