I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events.
Date of birth: 1914-09-03
Date of death: 1994-01-02
Quotes number: 19
Nationality: American
Profession: Politician
We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.
The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.
I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family.
We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.
From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.
I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.
During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations.
It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.
A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.