Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, everybody knows that the majority party in any legislative body controls the schedule. The reason that this issue has not come up until now is because the majority party has elected not to bring it up until now. The chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary could have had the committee pass what is called a rule XX motion, which would have given him the authority to come to the floor to move to send this bill to conference without having to go to the Committee on Rules and without having this kind of a restrictive rule situation. He chose not to do so, even though the committee has met several times. So aside from one objection that was made a couple weeks ago by the gentleman from New Jersey, any delay is solely the responsibility of the majority party because, their Speakers who sit in the chair do not recognize Republicans for making procedural motions to advance bills. Now, secondly, the gentlewoman from Colorado talked about different strokes for different folks. People who obstruct the entrances to businesses on the picket line during labor disputes are charged with an unfair labor practice. That is entirely different than charging people who physically obstruct an abortion clinic with a felony. Now, it seems to me that obstruction is obstruction.”