Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I would like to respond to my colleague, Senator Lee. Repeatedly he said we should not consider this in the lameduck session. We are not in a lameduck session. This is the regular session of the Senate. We do precious little in this regular session, and now the Senator is saying we should not do it in the lameduck session. We are not in a lameduck session. And I might say that this treaty has been out there for review for months. It had a full review before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Senator Kerry called it. The Senator was there and other Members were there and had a chance to go through it page by page and offer amendments, which many Senators did. So to argue that this is somehow being sprung on the Members of the Senate without time to review it is to ignore the obvious. We are not in a lameduck session. This was produced for review and amendment in a full hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a vote was taken. It is disappointing. We had hoped to do this and do it now because many of the supporters of this treaty are facing their own physical challenges. One of them is our former colleague, Senator Bob Dole. Twenty-two years ago, he led the fight for the Americans with Disabilities Act. When Senator John McCain took this up, he said: I am going to call Bob Dole first. And he did. In his honor, I hope the Senator from Utah will reconsider his position.…”