Political Quotes

“Let me also say one thing about the talking filibuster that hit me, and that is bipartisanship. As we know, both of us, I think, were on the Senate floor when Senator Arlen Specter gave his farewell address. I believe the Presiding Officer was also here. Senator Specter served in the minority for 2 years and then was in the majority for almost 2 years and both times he came forward with a proposal where he was calling for the same thing--a talking filibuster, whether he was on the minority side or the majority side. So I think, once again, that just demonstrates that each of these provisions has bipartisan support in it. We don't think this debate is about partisanship. We don't think it is about a power grab. We don't think it is about those kinds of things. It is about, as the Senator has elucidated, making the Senate work better. When we say ``make the Senate work better,'' we are talking about it working better for the American people. I think if we did the oversight of government when it comes to appropriations bills, a budget, getting the budget out on time, getting appropriations bills done on time, that does a lot to make sure the public's money is well spent, and that is something I hear a lot about back home. I will ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a Republican Policy Committee paper titled ``The Constitutional Option: The Senate's Power To Make Procedural Rules by Majority Vote,'' dated April 25, 2005.…”