Political Quotes

“after the Second World War, we had a great industry evolve in the United States. We were building light aircraft all over, and they are all over the world today. Cessna, Beech, Piper, you name it, they are everywhere. Everywhere you go you can see these great airplanes. Little by little, because of a very active trial attorneys bar, they are no longer there. Where we were doing billions of dollars of business and providing millions of jobs, where we were building 18,000 aircraft a year, we are not building less than 400. This body has the opportunity to do a historic thing today. We have gone through the other body, we have gone through the Committee on Public Works, but we are being held up in one committee. This morning I filed Discharge Petition No. 21, and already we have about 50 signers on that. We have 302 cosponsors. That means the majority of us are on this bill. This is a great opportunity before we go home for our break to sign this discharge petition, the 302 of you on this. Once we reach 218, you cannot sign it anymore, the books are closed. I urge you to do it.”