Political Quotes

“I want to join in this memorial service and commemorate the relationship that so many of us had with our colleague, Ed Madigan. Ed and I served together on the Commerce Committee, and for a number of years he was the ranking minority member of the Subcommittee on Health and Environment during the time that I served as chairman. It was a honor to have worked with him. He was a man who was dedicated to solving problems, to trying to figure out what the issues were, how can we resolve philosophical differences, which we obviously had, but how do you solve real world problems to make this a better country. We worked together on a number of issues. One was the breast cancer legislation. That legislation provided additional funds to combat this disease, to get screening so women would have mammographies to try to find the cancer early and be able to totally eradicate it. He was very much in support of giving information to consumers about nutrition and foods so that consumers could make their own choices, and he and I worked very closely on that legislation.”