Political Quotes

“throughout the world, Easter has been celebrated. This was done on Sunday. On that joyous day, Pope Benedict spoke of the human condition with a very heavy heart, and I quote: How many wounds--how much suffering there is in the world. Nothing positive comes from Iraq, torn apart by continual slaughter as the civilian population flees. As we open the third work period this year, Pope Benedict's words weigh on my mind. I hope we will honor them as we continue to work in a bipartisan manner to address that suffering by moving America in a new direction at home and abroad. That was the promise we made to the American people when the 110th Congress opened 3 months ago; not a promise made only by Democrats but by Democrats and Republicans. Although we have only completed the first two work periods of the session, we have made considerable progress. When we began in January, we knew all our goals depended on changing the way Washington works. So our first order of business was passing the toughest lobbying ethics reform legislation in our Nation's history. We were guided through that by the chairman of our Rules Committee, Senator Feinstein. Next, with the skill of Senators Kennedy and Baucus, we voted to give working Americans a much deserved and long overdue raise by finally increasing the minimum wage.”