Trent Lott: “if I could comment briefly on that, I meant it sincerely when I said there has been good, hard work done on both sides…”

“if I could comment briefly on that, I meant it sincerely when I said there has been good, hard work done on both sides of the aisle: Senator Grassley and Senator Hatch on the bankruptcy bill; Senator Murkowski, obviously, and others on the nuclear waste bill. But Senator Reid has done excellent work on his side of the aisle in helping us move this legislation through in a positive way. The fact is, already this year we have passed bankruptcy reform; we have passed a bill that would provide for a minimum wage increase and tax relief for small business men and women, and for a nuclear waste repository. These are important issues. They are complicated and difficult to deal with substantively and politically. I think the Senate can feel good. I hope we can continue to work our way through important issues and that we will be able to do it as much as possible in a bipartisan way.”