Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Pennsylvania for yielding me a few minutes to go in front of him even though he was here before me. I want to say a couple of words in support of the child nutrition bill. I know the Senator from Pennsylvania also wants to speak about that, the child nutrition bill that was passed by unanimous consent here in the Senate this afternoon. I thank Chairman Lincoln, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, for her tireless efforts to bring this bill to fruition. She has been a great advocate, a great champion of child nutrition and making the changes necessary to get better food for our kids in schools. I also thank Senator Chambliss, with whom I served on the Agriculture Committee for a number of years, either as ranking member or as chairman, working on agriculture bills. I also particularly want to thank Senator Murkowski of Alaska. She and I have worked together as partners in this effort for several of the past years on trying to get this bill put together and get the provisions we have in the bill done. She has been a great champion of better food in our school lunch program, school breakfast program, afterschool meals. I also thank our leader, Senator Reid, and Minority Leader Senator McConnell, for working together on both sides to get this bill to the point where we could actually get to a unanimous consent today.…”