Carrie Lam Quotes
Any proposal that would usurp or water down the rights of the nominating committee would not be able to receive political support.
Commenting on the Electoral College:
After Lincoln was elected, Southerners were threatening secession fearing that his government might try and do what they had promised to do in the campaign—and that meant restricting slavery in the new territories of the nation. The Southern logic was that because the slaves were counted in the census for purposes of apportioning congressmen, the smaller slave states have had an artificial overrepresentation so that the Southern States could block most efforts to limit, regulate, or abolish slavery. However, if all the new territories entered the Union as non slave states, the slave states would lose their parity in Congress. Further, it would be easier to get the states to approve Constitutional Amendments to abolish slavery in the slave states. They saw the slavery issue in the new territories to be the beginning of the end for slavery in the U. S. So they wanted to intimidate the new government into not implementing their campaign promises.
The House Rules Committee had evolved into a very powerful committee which controlled the debate rules of every piece of legislation that came before the House. This Congress—the worst in American History—passed fewer bills than any other. Those that ever got out of the Rules Committee had Rules that prohibited the minority from even offering amendments.
Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor GBM GBS is a Hong Kong politician serving as the fourth and current Chief Executive of Hong Kong since 2017 and Chairperson of the Committee for Safeguarding National Security since 2020. She served as Chief Secretary for Administration from 2012 to 2017 and Secretary for Development from 2007 to 2012.
