Arthur Cameron Quotes
The reason it takes so long to pass legislation is to give each and every one of you an opportunity to be heard.
Arthur Cameron, Lobbyist, Lecture, Georgetown University, C-SPAN December 30, 1991
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Then running for reelection as a state legislator.
This small booklet was the first describing parliamentary procedures and it rapidly sold 500,000 copies. It has become the bases for legislatures, committees, boards ever since. The Congress and most of the State and local legislatures all are based on it.
See Henry Clay for an earlier expression of this point.
Originally it was published in Boston under the name “A Columbian Patriot.” The “principles to which she referred were the principles set out in our Constitution of 1787.
Under his leadership the conservative Republicans had attempted and failed dozens of times to repeal Obamacare which many Republicans campaigned against in the 2012 Presidential election which they also lost. The irony was that even if a repeal were to possibly pass both housed of Congress, President Obama announced that he would veto the repeal. This futile and repetitive wast of time took place where the House was so extreme that it originated almost no legislation that every became law. The conservative Republicans had opposed every attempt to provide a national health system since they blocked President Truman from it. Yet Medicare was passed and became one of America’s most popular programs. Conservatives blocked all efforts to expand Medicare to cover all Americans until President Obama in his first term passed Obamacare. Since then they made all these attempts to repeal it.
Arthur Leslie Cameron was the tenth mayor of Calgary. His second term was after the creation of the Province of Alberta.
