Political Quotes

“Absolutely. And I think that is Senator Portman's interest. We would like to get some agreement on how to move forward. As I said last week, I don't have any objection to voting on Senator Vitter's legislation if we can get some agreement on limiting those extraneous amendments that really don't have anything to do with energy efficiency so we can get onto this bill, get it done, and make progress because, as the chairman knows, it is going to be very challenging to tackle some of those other energy issues that are much more controversial than this energy efficiency bill. So it would be nice to be able to have agreement so we can move on to some of those other issues. I especially appreciate the Senator's leadership and Senator Murkowski's leadership in reaching some agreement and trying to move an energy agenda on the floor.”