Political Quotes

“Yesterday we passed, 92 to 2, an election reform bill. I think that bill proves what Senator Grassley just said. That was a bipartisan bill. Senator Dodd, the chairman of the committee, worked very closely with Senator McConnell, the ranking member, and with me. We worked for about 18 months. It was not easy. But it was always done in a bipartisan fashion and we got the bill done. If we had really wanted a prescription drug Medicare reform bill, we could have relied on the work of the bipartisan group on the Finance Committee. If we had wanted an energy bill, we should have relied on the bipartisan Energy Committee, with interest and expertise in the area, to report out a bill. It was taken away, for political purposes, from the Energy Committee by the majority leader. As a result, we got nowhere.”