Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I thank Chairman Inhofe very much. I thank him for his leadership. He is the chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee. I remember we came early on--Senator Vitter and myself--to him, and said: We have been working on this bill a couple of years. We think it is ready to go, but obviously it has to go through your committee. The Senator worked with us all the way along the line. A lot of this has to do with his leadership and helping us with--amending it in a way to keep making it bipartisan. That has been the history of this bill; that it has grown. As we know, it passed his committee 15 to 5. I say to Chairman Inhofe, our next speaker, Senator Whitehouse, who is on your committee, was able to work with you and three other members of the Environment and Public Works Committee to get the bill in shape so we could then get it ready for the floor. Working with you, we have made a few additional tweaks and things, but I think it is ready to go; don't you?”