I make a prediction here and now, and, my friends, I want you to watch the proceedings of Congress in these coming weeks of this extra session, or of the next regular session, to see whether I am right or not.
I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.
There are times in Annapolis when a governor's support can move an issue over the goal line.
I am convinced that the steps contained in H.R. 624 are reasonable, acceptable, and valuable. The vast majority of members of Congress who take the time to study this legislation will agree.
I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't.
No legislator ever got in trouble for voting against a bill that passed or for a bill that didn’t pass.
Parliament is a potent engine, and its enactments must always do something, but they very seldom do what the originators of these enactments meant.
People don't understand it, but the most intense occasions in the House of Commons were the ones I enjoyed most. When events could go either way and you could find yourself out of a job by the end of the day, those were the times when you were most on a high.
It's not up to one individual to decide, 'I'm going to dictate the outcome of what's going to happen legislatively.' That is not a democracy; it's an atrocity.
I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.
What sort of politics you people do? Such is the way of all parliaments: one can sense even beforehand the trend of voting, in which direction it will turn.
What happens in committee if the committee functions, more often than not, not every time but more often than not, a bill comes out with bipartisan support.
Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.
It is often quite impossible to gauge the mood of the Chamber in advance, particularly on big occasions. One moment, it is relaxed and good-humoured; at the next, it can be angry and querulous, and the House in this mood can be a formidable arena.
Although Senate Bill 1556 has received attention for its perceived focus, my job is to look at the actual substance of the legislation.
We cover Congress only when it gets to the final vote on something, too late for the public to respond.
I would like to add some legislative history at the end of my remarks.
