06/09/2009
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"my hope for you and for all of us is that this committee can become the model of bipartisanship that this Senate and this Congress needs."
"Senator Murkowski puts it very eloquently. She says it is time to apply the 'even Steven' rule: the same thing that you do for the NRA is what you do for the Sierra Club."
"I just do not believe it is appropriate for this committee or for the United States Senate to take action until the bipartisan investigation... is completed."
"I do not think we need to get tangled up on all that."