Barbara Boxer: “I wish to thank everybody. We have made great progress on this bill. We will still be working very hard tomorrow…”

“I wish to thank everybody. We have made great progress on this bill. We will still be working very hard tomorrow, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. We urge you, if you have amendments, we are just saying let them be relevant and not controversial. We can't solve every problem in America on this water bill, but we are trying our best to get a really good bill through the Senate. I understand from the House that they intend to look at our bill, work off our bill, and make their changes. Then we will go to conference and hopefully have a very good result. It is 3 o'clock on a Thursday, and we have disposed of numerous amendments. We are still looking at more. We are trying to resolve all of those. One way or the other, it is our plan to finish this bill next week. It is very rare to have a bill that is so bipartisan, that will, in fact, support over 500,000 jobs, and that has the support of business, labor, and all kinds of community groups. With that, I thank my colleagues for working with us. I have talked to the majority leader. There will be no further votes today. Next week we will finish this bill. I thank you very much. I thank my friend from Missouri. It has been a pleasure working with him and staff on his excellent amendment with Senator Nelson. We are very pleased we were able to clear this. I also thank Senator Landrieu and Senator Durbin. They had some issues, but they stepped back and let us move forward with these amendments.…”