Political Quotes

“I commend our chairman, Senator Kennedy, for his work in bringing this important bill to the floor. I also commend Senator Schumer for his leadership. I say to my friend from Massachusetts, it is my understanding the leader, because of the importance of the issue of not only lowering drug prices for everyone but providing Medicare coverage for prescription drugs, has actually allocated up to 2 weeks on this subject. The sooner we can get to the bill, the sooner we can begin to move through a number of different amendments to be able to get this bill in good shape, to be able to deal with a number of issues, such as those that deal with increasing competition and providing Medicare coverage, and so on. This is so critical that our leader has, in fact, allocated 2 weeks. I am very surprised that our colleague from New Hampshire would stop even the beginning of the debate when he knows that it is not a 1-day debate. We are talking about having 2 weeks and as many hours as it takes in that time to be able to work out all of the kinks and to be able to get it right.”