Political Quotes

“let me just say, and spread on the Record today, these are 20 nominations that have been approved today, not counting those military promotions that are also part of the Executive Calendar. We have approved four judges. We have approved some very important Department of Justice nominations, including U.S. attorneys. We have an Assistant Attorney General. There are some very important matters we have done today. I think it is important we have done this. I say to my friends on the other side of the aisle, speaking for Senator Daschle and all of us on this side of the aisle, we are very happy that we are moving to the appropriations bills. We need to work together. We are glad we are able to do that now. We are so happy we have been able to confirm these nominations. We look forward to confirming a lot more in the immediate future. We also look forward to working through these appropriations bills. The two managers on the foreign operations appropriations bill-- Senator Leahy, the chairman of the subcommittee, and the ranking member, Senator McConnell--are two of the most experienced legislators we have. I think we should be able to move through this legislation very quickly. I am happy that in the morning we will have something on which to work. The Senator from Minnesota is going to be in this Chamber to offer amendments. We have every intent of finishing this bill tomorrow afternoon as early as possible.”