Trent Lott: “I certainly support this legislation. It has broad support across the country.”

with regard to Senator Reid's comments, I don't see any problem with vitiating cloture on the so-called CHIP bill, H.R. 3963. If the leader would like to do that, I assume after consultation with Leader McConnell there wouldn't be any…

I do think that the congestion problem is going to continue to grow until we begin to make tougher decisions.

First of all, there's going to be an election and the numbers will be different come this fall. And you're going to need leadership from the President and from the leaders in the Congress.

However, like so many of the things that we complain about in the Congress, we looked around, and we found the enemy, and it is us.