Political Quotes

“Madam President, thank you very much for the recognition. I wish to say to Senator Carper about TSCA that we have been working on--you were one of the early Senators who really cared about this issue. You were involved with it, and you helped it develop. Over time, we did a marvelous thing in terms of improving what Senator Frank Lautenberg had put on the table, bipartisan--he developed a lot of Republican and Democratic support--and you were a key player all the way through. So we know--we think at this point, you and I believe--and we do a lot of visiting around on both sides of the aisle--that this is ready to go. We now have I think 53 cosponsors. We are developing more cosponsors every day, and we don't think there is any real hostility toward the bill in terms of wanting amendments that aren't relevant. That is a key factor for us, and both sides need to focus on that. I would like to express my appreciation to you for what you have done on TSCA to help blend it into and make it into a bipartisan product. We have been trying--you know, it has been very busy with the Pope in town, with the sequester facing us and the shutdown and things such as that. We have been trying to get onto the floor to talk about this, and I think we are going to continue to do that in the future. But it is tremendously important that this gets some floor time now, and I know you have been working on that with me. Do you see this as a product that is better than current law?…”