08/03/2009
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"I'd like to thank Chairman Harkin and Senators Murkowski, Brown, Casey, and Bennet for their leadership on efforts to improve the nutritional content of school meals provided by the Federal school lun..."
"A super majority requirement for all legislation and nominees would, as Alexander Hamilton explained, mean that a small minority could destroy the energy of government."
"I am willing to give it up. I hope others are willing to give it up, I think, for the benefit of having a better functioning United States Senate."
"I believe that my approach, I think, covers that adequately and that is why I am still after 15 years, and have been ever since promoting it, whether I am in the minority or in the majority."