Political Quotes

“let me, if I may, address another issue which is about to come before us. If you follow boxing and have watched any big championship fights, you may know that it comes at the end of the evening. During the course of the day and afternoon and the early evening hours, there are preliminary fights, and they are interesting, but they are young boxers who are untested. But the excitement builds and the attention of the audience builds for the prize fight, the heavyweight championship fight, always the last thing on the card. Much the same occurs in Washington, DC. We have a lot of preliminary fights that lead up to the championship. You are here witnessing on the floor of the Senate today, and in the closing days of this session, the heavyweight fights. We just finished one. That was the Energy bill. This was a controversial issue of some 1,400 pages that had been debated for years. It came to the Senate floor and just a short time ago was basically stopped. A filibuster prevailed by a bipartisan rollcall with, I believe, six Republican Senators and a number of Democratic Senators. The Energy bill was stopped. It was a heavyweight fight because those supporting the bill include the biggest energy interests in America, the big oil companies.…”