Political Quotes

“Mr. President, you can see that Mary Landrieu has a lot of friends on both sides of the aisle, and that is because Mary has stood up and been a mentor to so many of us. She taught us how to fight for our own States because that is what she has done every day for Louisiana. I was thinking about our States earlier. Mary mentioned in her talk about how Minnesota is at the top of the Mississippi and Louisiana is at the bottom and how hard we fought for river issues and barges and locks and dams. We will actually have success at the end of the year with the ABLE Act, which is really important for other reasons, but we are going to finally start the funding for lock and dam improvements, and that kind of work would not have happened without Mary and the work and support she has provided with the RIVER Act. So a river doesn't divide us, it unites us, and Mary is a uniter and brings people together on so many issues. She said before that she was going to put some things on the Record about adoption, but I thought I would take the opportunity to fill people in. First of all, Mary established the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute. If you have not gone to some of the events where she literally brings the angels--people who have adopted children in the most dire circumstances--to Washington to celebrate these adoptions and talk about the policy changes that need to be made.…”