Political Quotes

“First, let me thank the leadership and my colleagues, Democrats and Republicans, for allowing us to get to this point. Now we are on the bill after all this time. I didn't hear all the comments of my friend from Tennessee, but clearly we are making an effort to reach agreement where we can on some of the critical issues. Senator Shelby and I and our staffs have worked very hard over the weekend to try to come to closure on the resolution title of the bill, title I and title II, that Senator Corker spent so much time working on. We thought we had done a pretty good job, but there is always room for improvement to satisfy the interests people have to make sure taxpayers will never be exposed. My hope is we will be able to present that, Senator Shelby and I, to our colleagues to be able to close that issue and move on to the other areas of the bill that people have interests in. We have a number of amendments that I believe should be relatively noncontroversial--either bipartisan amendments that Senators want to offer dealing with the Federal Trade Commission or dealing with the consumer title.”