Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I thank the Chair and thank the Senator from Connecticut for yielding the remainder of his time. I understand he has an hour under his control, and I intend to take the full measure of the hour that is left, first speaking in favor of the nominee who he has so eloquently described in terms of her background and experience and the arguments he is making about trying to bring more civility and bipartisanship to this body and the importance of getting some of these very important Federal officials appointed so government can work better and more efficiently. It has been my pleasure to serve with the chairman now for several years on the Homeland Security Committee, and I am familiar with the work he and his ranking member, Susan Collins, the Senator from Maine, have done together. They have shown a real example of bipartisanship, and I would hope his calls for this nominee to move forward without delay and not be held up would be heeded. Louisiana FMAP Formula Mr. President, I am on the floor to speak about a different subject, one that is very important to the State of Louisiana and the people of our State--an issue that has been mischaracterized for months now in all sorts of venues--and I thought taking an opportunity today, for a couple of hours, to go through the request by the State of Louisiana for a change or realignment of our FMAP formula, the formula that funds our Medicaid system, would be good to do.…”