Political Quotes

“Before I begin on my topic, which is different from the topic of the Senator from Ohio--I thank him for his comments about our focus on small business and assure him, as the Chair knows, that we are doubling our efforts this week to hone in on a package of support and help for small businesses in America. We believe the recovery can take place and will take place, but it will be led in large measure by the small businesses in America. We are going to do our very best, after we deal with this bill that is on the Senate floor, to focus the attention of the Senate in that regard. I thank the Senator from Ohio and look forward to working with him in the weeks ahead. Tragedy in the Gulf Madam President, I rise today, though, to speak on an equally serious subject--actually, a tragedy and disaster that is occurring right now off the coast of my home State, in Louisiana. On Tuesday, on April 20, as we all now know, at approximately 10 p.m., a tremendous and terrible explosion occurred aboard a state-of-the-art drill ship, the Transocean Deepwater Horizon. There were 126 men and women onboard that rig. It was drilling in almost 6,000 feet of water--a real technological feat--some 50 miles off the Louisiana coast. The explosion, unfortunately and sadly, killed 11 men and 17 others were injured--3 of them critically--and today 1 remains in the hospital. We don't know what precisely caused this accident, but at present it appears that the blow-out preventer failed. We do not know why.…”