Political Quotes

“I want to take a moment and express my gratitude to my colleagues. I want to thank Senator Landrieu. She was involved in a lot of this, so I want to thank her immensely for her contribution. She chairs the Small Business Committee of the Senate and she and my very good friend from Georgia, Johnny Isakson, crafted a very good amendment, which we just adopted. It is going to make our whole section dealing with underwriting a very important part of this bill, and I thank them for that. I want to thank Senator Mike Crapo from Idaho, my colleague on the Banking Committee. He made a very constructive suggestion to this part of the bill. I want to thank his staff as well and the staff of Senator Landrieu, who did a very good job in working through the language this afternoon that allowed us to come to this conclusion. They both couldn't be here at this particular moment, late in the evening, so I am speaking on their behalves, but I thank them both. Again, this is exactly what we are trying to achieve in this bill-- which I know is taking a lot of time on the floor of the Senate--with the contributions of Republicans and Democrats--people such as Johnny Isakson and Mike Crapo, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, and so many others who have contributed to this product. We are dealing with a very complex area but a critically needed one for our Nation. We are getting closer and closer to final passage of this bill.”