Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I congratulate Senator Landrieu and thank her. I am on the Small Business Committee. I serve with her on the committee and others. I have watched her extraordinary talent flourish as chair of the Small Business Committee. The bill before us does something we all say we believe in; that is, support small business. Every Member of this body has pointed out something which the Senator from Louisiana knows and reflects in her work; that is, the engine of jobs is small business. We all say that. Most of us believe it. I hope all of us believe it, if we say it. It is not a partisan comment. This is a jobs bill which should get bipartisan support. Some of the jobs efforts have not. But this bill, because it is focused on small business and because that focus has been supported so regularly by Republicans and Democrats, will pick up some Republican support, I hope. It deserves that support. Senator Landrieu has reached out to try to obtain that support for this bill. I hope she succeeds. In addition to thanking her for her great work on this bill, I wish to note the work of the Presiding Officer who worked very hard on a provision of this bill. As a matter of fact, he has worked so hard on other provisions on other bills which have recently passed this body and been signed into law. But Senator Merkley is actually the key sponsor of a provision which I will not be focusing on but which I believe has either already been discussed or will be.…”