Political Quotes

“I rise in the first instance to congratulate the chairman of our committee and his vice chairman for the extraordinary work they have done in less than a year. I make the point, it is a point of Senate procedure, that it is rare there is a chairman and vice chairman, not chairman and ranking member. This has been a wholly bipartisan effort from the first, and I think we can see that from the results in so brief a span. The issue has been with us for some while, and it would be derelict of me not to mention that it was brought to my attention by a dear friend from New York, a financial analyst, John Westergaard, who began talking to me about the matter in 1995. On February 13 of 1996, I wrote to the Congressional Research Service to say: Well, now, what about this? Richard Nunno authored a report which the CRS sent to me on June 7 saying that 'the Y2K problem is indeed serious and that fixing it will be costly and time-consuming. The problem deserves the careful and coordinated attention of the Federal Government, as well as the private sector, in order to avert major disruptions on January 1, 2000.'”