Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I am here on a very important bipartisan bill, but I first wanted to address the fact that I am proud to be supporting Judge Jackson. I think she has incredible legal experience--more experience as a judge going into the job than four of the people had when they went on to the Supreme Court. She is in the top two for trial experience. She showed incredible grace under pressure when one over-the-top, inappropriate question was asked of her after another. She will be walking into that Supreme Court with her head held high, and she is going to be confirmed next week. As I said, I will speak more to this later. I spoke a lot about it in the Judiciary Committee, but she is going to be a great Supreme Court Justice. Ocean Shipping Reform Act Mr. President, I rise today to highlight my bill with Senator Thune, which just passed the Senate, the Ocean Shipping Reform Act. We worked for months together on this bill to come to an agreement. We did everything right and got cosponsors on both sides of the aisle. I particularly want to thank Baz, my staff member on the Commerce Committee, who did such a great job in working on this. And I also want to thank Senators Cantwell and Wicker for their support of the bill as the chair and ranking member on the Commerce Committee. We worked together on some changes to the bill, and I appreciated their input. As U.S.…”