Political Quotes

“We can have a short Thanksgiving break. We don't have to have a long break for Christmas. The problem is we haven't been working. Here is my list. He mentioned three things; Keystone was not on them. Then, to shorten this, John Cornyn, the Senator from Texas, came to the floor and he gave a very long list. He did in fact mention Keystone, but it was in the context of, as soon as we convene again in January--a long list--we will vote on Keystone. I came to the floor yesterday and said that was not good enough to the leader of my leadership and the leadership of the Republican Party and said: You know what, I would like to vote on Keystone now. So yesterday, because I gave that speech and because the public wants us to do this--more than I, the public wants a vote on Keystone and has wanted it for a long time. The House of Representatives took the bill that Senator Hoeven and I had drafted, stripped the language of theirs, which would never have passed the Senate of the United States and would never have gotten to the President's desk, and put our language in-- like I would be upset about that. I am not upset about that. I am happy about that. I am grateful that I was able yesterday, in 3 hours, to move the leadership of the Democrats in the Senate, the leadership of the Republicans in the Senate, the Republican leadership in the House to get a vote on Keystone on Tuesday.…”