Angie Craig: “sometimes my colleague from Massachusetts and I disagree openly, sometimes loudly, on different issues, but he and I…”

“sometimes my colleague from Massachusetts and I disagree openly, sometimes loudly, on different issues, but he and I will not disagree today on the integrity or the excellence of the individual before us, David Satcher. But we will disagree. Nobody deserves a break on the truth or the facts as it relates to the performance of an individual. So let the Senator from Massachusetts and I agree that David Satcher is an outstanding individual of high quality. We agree. But because of differences in philosophy that sometimes produce politics we will disagree. I think my colleague from Missouri was doing that today. And so no breaks are given to anyone, nor should they be given. We are talking about building a record that is tremendously important as we reach out to decide whether this gentleman should become America's family doctor as the Surgeon General of the United States and therefore the record and the facts as they relate to this individual's performance and what he has done in the past are relevant and very important.”