Mitch Landrieu: “I happen to believe this bill was pretty good when it left the Senate, and it has come back fairly effective. I would…”

“I happen to believe this bill was pretty good when it left the Senate, and it has come back fairly effective. I would like to leave that question open to any of my colleagues who would care to come to the floor and explain in front of the cameras and for all to review why when it left here everyone was covered--all of the single employers and multiemployers--and as it has come back, why they have only received partial relief. I have a reason, but I am not sure my reason is correct. I am going to leave that question out there and hopefully my good friend from Massachusetts and I can get an answer to that question before this debate concludes in 4 hours. When President George Bush was elected in one of the closest elections ever in our Nation, he said it was time to rise above a house divided and to move together to create economic opportunity and economic hope. When this bill had as its core very good purposes, when it left the Senate we were united. It had 86 votes, a majority of both the Democrat and Republican caucuses to give relief to every pension.”