Political Quotes

“Madam President, the vote just taken was unanimous, which is interesting. We were able to work on this for 5 days here on the floor of the Senate. But I also want to say we always talk about good staff work. We do have an exceptionally fine staff at the Commerce Committee and I want to say that Senator Rockefeller's work and Senator Hutchison's work was so important in order to move us in this direction to get this completed. I think they would agree as well that the staff director Ellen Doneski, deputy staff director James Reid, Gael Sullivan, Rich Swayze on the Aviation Subcommittee staff, and I know Senator Hutchison's staff, Ann Begeman, staff director, Jarrod Thompson, and Tom Jones for Senator DeMint, is a fine staff. The reason I wanted to say a word about this piece of legislation--I just got off an airplane myself, just came back from North Dakota. But I wanted to say that this piece of legislation, while not getting the attention that some other pieces of legislation are getting these days, notably health care, among others, is a very important piece of legislation, and it has some very important critical changes that I think will be beneficial and will save lives. I wanted to mention a couple of them. No. 1, for the irritants that exist in air travel these days, and there are a lot of them, this includes the Passenger Bill of Rights--a lot of people probably do not know that, but just common sense, sound thinking about what are the rights of passengers here.…”