Mitch Landrieu: “I know the issue he wants to speak about--asbestos--is a very important issue that has great ramifications for workers…”

“I know the issue he wants to speak about--asbestos--is a very important issue that has great ramifications for workers and businesses in our country. We only have, on this side, about 45 minutes to debate this very important pension bill that also affects large, small, and medium-sized corporations and workers, whether they are union workers or not. There is no doubt, as the Senator from Mississippi came to the floor and said, that there is a great deal of good being accomplished in this pension reform bill that helps us to direct capital in a much more effective and productive way, at a time when our country needs to be creating jobs, not destroying them, and at a time when we need to be strengthening all of our companies, not weakening them. There is no argument on this side about that issue--none.”