Ben Cardin: “I want to thank Senator Smith, who called me during the holiday recess and said: We have this problem. How do we fix it?…”

“I want to thank Senator Smith, who called me during the holiday recess and said: We have this problem. How do we fix it? I really appreciated the phone call I received from Senator Smith. She recognized that we had to build support for the legislation but also make it work right because it is much more complicated to figure out the target group we are trying to help to make sure it is drafted in the right way. She reached out to get that type of help on drafting, as well as getting support among the stakeholders to make sure the bill was properly drafted. It took some time, and now we have a bill that we can all be proud to support. So once again, I want to thank my colleague from Minnesota for the manner in which she has gone about presenting this legislation.”