When the conference reports come back, I control all the time. I'm a great believer in figures. I learned a long time ago that if you have the votes, you don't need to speak. And if you don't have the votes, you can talk all day, and nothing will help you. The longer you talk, the more trouble you are in.
Gibbons proposes an amendment regarding poor people.
Hansen tells Sikes that if he wants his fish hatchery he had better stop Gibbons. I told him if he didn't help I couldn't hold off attacks on his fish laboratory. And I said I'll take a very dismal view of appropriations for Florida in the future. I didn't want any teapot tempest on the floor. I told him, you had better run for Congress.