Political Quotes

“Madam President, I would like to respond directly to the minority leader because I wish to make clear that there are no extraneous provisions in this bill other than disaster relief for farmers. The last time I checked, they were small business owners, many of them. They are running a different kind of business. It is not a hardware store, it is not a restaurant--they go out and actually get their food out of the ground. The last time I checked or thought about it, they were small businesses. If the minority leader is suggesting there is not bipartisan support for agricultural disaster relief, I urge him, at his next available opportunity, to file an amendment to repeal it because I think his side would have strong objection to that. That was put in at the request of Senator Lincoln and Senator Chambliss from Georgia, and he very well knows that--through the Chair to the minority leader. There were only two arguments made this morning against this bill because it was just a political advertisement that the minority leader outlined, so I will not even respond to him, to the Senator from Kentucky, but I will respond, in closing, to Senator Snowe and Senator Hatch. Mr. Hatch came to the floor, the Senator from Utah, and said we couldn't possibly pass a $12 billion tax cut for small business today unless we could, as a Senate, in the next few hours, make final decisions on whether to extend the entire tax package passed by George Bush when he was President 8 years ago.…”