Max Baucus: “I reinforce a theme that has been in the Senate, working together in bipartisanship. I have thought I am one of the…”

“I reinforce a theme that has been in the Senate, working together in bipartisanship. I have thought I am one of the luckiest Senators here because the chairman is Senator Grassley, a great Senator to work with. We work very closely together. That is not rhetoric. That is true. That is accurate. The same is also true with Senator Enzi, the chairman of the HELP Committee, and Senator Kennedy. They work very closely together. Not only do they work well together, here are two committees working well together. A lot of Americans think there is a lot of partisanship in Washington. There is. There is too much. But there are also pockets of cooperation. We are witnessing today one of those pockets, one of those times when we are working together. I take my hat off to the chairman of the HELP Committee, the chairman of the Committee on Finance, Senator Kennedy, and the staffs. This is an effort to solve a problem in a nonpartisan way. I thank the chairman. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Hawaii. Amendment No. 2583”