Political Quotes

“This effort has been bipartisan from the very start, from the very get-go. There are a lot of people here to thank. Obviously the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Bliley) for getting this on the fast track through subcommittee and full committee last week, the hearings that the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Tauzin) and I conducted last month, the many hours of hearings, and his leadership on this has been refreshing for the Congress to get this done. But particularly as we have reached across on both sides of the aisle, working with my good friend the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Dingell), the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) and others and the Committee on the Judiciary, we have in fact put together a bill that is solid, that is common sense. We identified major problems and we addressed them with this legislation. I looked back at the record back in the 1970s. There was another big tire recall. It was the Firestone 500 tire. A lot of evidence came forth. A lot of problems were identified. Yet the Congress did not move, the House or Senate, to actually correct it and here we are 25, 30 years later and we are undergoing the same thing.”