Dan Webster Quotes
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
Webster, Daniel. "Newsmakers Interview with Rep. Daniel Webster." C-SPAN, National Cable Satellite Corporation, 29 Sept. 2015.
Huntington and his associates were used to bribing Congressmen to vote for favorable railroad legislation.
Hollings who was one of the senior experienced senators was offended by the degree to which the George W. Bush Administration and the Republican leadership had turned to lobbyists to draft legislation and amendments to pending legislation. Lobbyists often have specialized information that members of Congress do not have, so there has been in modern times communications between lobbyists and members of Congress and their staffs. However, during the Bush Presidency the practice reached an extreme where lobbyists would even write the legislative language and give it to the members in whom they had invested by giving them large campaign contributions and many perks. K Street is the fanciest street in Washington DC with some of the most expensive office space. A substantial proportion of the lobbyists have K Street offices, hence the metaphor.
He and his Prime Minister, John Majors, had become so unpopular, that they were forced to resign by their own Conservative Party and never had to be voted out of office.
His admonition did little good. That Congress passed fewer bills than any other in history.
Daniel Alan Webster is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Florida's 11th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Republican Party, he first entered Congress in 2011. He previously represented Florida's 10th congressional district from 2011 to 2017 (numbered as the 8th district during his first term). Prior to his congressional service, he served 28 years in the Florida Legislature.
