Trent Lott: “I am trying to find a way we can get a bill completed that has $60 billion in it, billions of dollars for security for…”

“I am trying to find a way we can get a bill completed that has $60 billion in it, billions of dollars for security for our airports and for the airline industry as a whole and that the President will sign. Is this about trying to win the point--the congressional position will prevail and the President's position will prevail? How about finding a position we can both live with? That is, fortunately or unfortunately, how it works sometimes in a legislative body. That has always been my attitude. I am not interested in making statements. We came here to get things done. We need to get this legislation completed. That is why we have been working feverishly to try to come to a conclusion.”