Reauthorization Quotes

What we want is to find a more permanent arrangement, a long-term reauthorization (of the fund) that meets the needs of a state with our mining history. - Tom Rathbun

Voters will react the same way in 2006 if Democrats block the reauthorization of the Patriot Act to appease the hard left. - Ken Mehlman

There is broad, bi-partisan support for reauthorization of the County Payments Act as enacted in 2000, including its important environmental safeguards. There are better ways to fund public education for our children than selling off our public forests. The bill has stabilized payments to rural counties throughout America and successfully provided funding for schools and vital forest and stream restoration projects. - Mike Anderson

The Senate minority needs to stop obstructing its reauthorization. It's time for the Senate to complete their work. - Scott McClellan

The reauthorization process is an opportunity to take stock of where we are and, if necessary, to make adjustments that will protect and strengthen the act. - John Conyers

Suppose you're on some committee - say the Transportation Committee, and a major transportation reauthorization bill is in the works. If you're managing the bill, you're going to make sure that the speaker's, majority leader's and whip's districts are treated pretty well. - Bruce Oppenheimer

It's important that there doesn't appear to be preconceived perceptions of what the outcome will be. It's going to be thoroughly researched. The report that is going to come out at the end will drive the conversation, because the bill is up for reauthorization in 2007. - Andrea Messina

Congress must reauthorize all of the expiring sections of the Voting Rights Act. This renewal must happen without changes that would weaken the law's original intent, to ensure that minorities have equal and unhindered access to the ballot box. Reauthorization of the act is a truly bipartisan effort. People of all political stripes agree that every American should have their right to vote guaranteed. - LaShawn Warren