Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I have spent the better part of this day on the floor with many of my colleagues speaking about the small business jobs bill that is so important, and I would like to give credit to some of my Republican colleagues. They have worked very hard on portions of this bill, and I am very grateful. A portion of it came out of the Small Business Committee with a lot of bipartisan support; a portion came out of the Finance Committee with bipartisan support; and this amendment I am offering is a bipartisan amendment. Senator LeMieux, the Senator from Florida--in fact, both Senators from Florida have been extremely supportive. The Senator from Florida and I are the lead sponsors of an amendment that has over a dozen cosponsors. The Presiding Officer, a member of the Small Business Committee, is a cosponsor of our amendment, and I am so grateful to the Senator from Illinois for his input into the bill. This is a very important amendment to the small business package. The House has already voted on the package of the small business bill. They had a strong vote, and it was a bipartisan vote.…”