Trent Lott: “I commend and respond in the same sense and vein of the distinguished Senator from Connecticut. Before I do that, and…”

“I commend and respond in the same sense and vein of the distinguished Senator from Connecticut. Before I do that, and talk further about our relationship and how the Rules Committee package came together, I would like to call on my colleague, the distinguished Senator from Maine, to go over the specifics of what is included in the bill out of her committee work, and with Senator Lieberman. I have never worked with a floor manager who has been more enjoyable than working with the Senator from Maine, her attitude and her help, her tenacity, and also, of course, Senator Dodd. But I thought before I respond further to Senator Dodd, I would like for us to understand the details of what was in the legislation that came out of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.”