Trent Lott: “I am glad we have been through that, and now we are going to provide, as we always have, the assistance that is needed…”

“I am glad we have been through that, and now we are going to provide, as we always have, the assistance that is needed to the people in America who cannot help themselves. There is one thing that worries me about part of this bill. There is a lot of spending in here that does not relate to these disasters. It has just sort of been added as it's gone along, and I am not putting that just on Democrats either. A lot of these projects, if I go down the list, I can trace them back to some of my colleagues. But we are going to get this done. We can do the emergency stuff, and we can do the bigger package. But right now everybody is trying to find a way to prevail or to claim victory or to get the PR victory, and I am not--I did not say you. I said we. And when we decide, once we make up our minds we are going to get this done, short term or long term, we are going to find a way to do it. But the fact is, as has always been the case--and it will be this time--the people who have been hurt and hit with these disasters in a variety of States are going to get the help they need.”