Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague, Senator Snowe, who chaired the Small Business Committee for many years, for her dogged determination to make sure the language in the underlying bill, which is most certainly necessary to curb gross abuses in the financial market, does not unintentionally do harm to small businesses that are the engines of growth to pull us out of this recession. Our amendment helps in a significant way to do that by drawing fine lines and clarifying definitions. I thank the Federation of Small Businesses, the American Dental Association, and the American Association of Orthodontists, as well as dozens of other organizations that have supported this clarifying language. I thank the chairman of the committee for giving us an opportunity to offer this important amendment, and I urge my colleagues to accept it. I urge them to look at the cosponsorship opportunity as well. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Connecticut.”