Political Quotes

“I would like to extend my congratulations to the Senator from South Dakota. This is a significant agreement on which he and Senator Nelson and others have worked very hard. I want to especially thank him for including in the bill something Senator Feinstein of California and I have worked on for several years; that is, the provision to ban the use of cell phones on airplanes. There is nothing worse than sitting next to someone on a 4- hour flight who would make it his or her business of revealing all of the intimate details of their life to someone on a cell phone. This would take care of that. I would say to the Senator from South Dakota that sometimes I suggest to my friends in Tennessee that they look at Washington, DC, as a split-screen television. On the one side are tweets and Supreme Court contention and cable television and arguments, and on the other side we are getting quite a bit done, like the FAA bill, like the songwriters bill, like the appropriations bills that have kept us first in the world in supercomputing. Thanks to the leadership of Senator Blunt of Missouri and Senator Murray of Washington, we have, for the fourth consecutive year, included record funding for biomedical research.…”