Washington Merry-Go-Round1932

Button Gwinett Brown:
[making his maiden speech in Congress] . . .The Digger bill is a barefaced attempt to loot the Treasury to the tune of two million dollars of the people's money. I'm only a greenhorn; I don't know what it's all about [raucous applause] . . . . Maybe two million dollars isn't important in a four billion dollar budget. But this is important, gentlemen: A lot of you are going to vote for the Digger bill, which you haven't even read, so that others will vote for *your* bill, which *they* haven't read. These chiseling little camphor-ball measures are just chips in the big poker game, played with the people's money.