Political Quotes

“I want to start by welcoming my colleagues to what I hope will be a highly productive lameduck session of Congress. We have immense challenges facing our country, but I believe we can come together and accomplish the tasks before us, hopefully in a truly bipartisan way. As the Presiding Officer knows, one of the issues I have been really concerned about for some time is the production tax credit for wind energy, which is known by its acronym of PTC. I would like to acknowledge that the Presiding Officer's State, Minnesota, has a big presence in wind energy. I have come to the floor, as my colleagues know--and maybe, in some of their minds, too often--I come down here every morning we are in session--just about every morning since June--to talk about the importance of extending this job-creating tax credit. The PTC has helped create literally tens of thousands of good-paying middle-class jobs all across our Nation, it has in turn spurred the growth of the wind energy industry, and it has strengthened American manufacturing, which we all deeply care about, and it has helped free us from foreign sources of energy. That is quite a trifecta of successes, make no mistake about it. It has also underlined the fact that energy security is national security.…”