Political Quotes

“leaving that subject, which is certainly a subject that concerns us all, turning to the subject of this morning, around midnight, when we passed the Energy bill, it was a tremendous accomplishment for this body. As I said yesterday when, with the first vote, cloture was invoked, I hope that set a new tone and pattern in Washington, where we can work together to pass things. It would be one thing if the bill that was before the Senate for the last couple of weeks was a Democratic bill, but it wasn't. I took what was passed out of the Energy Committee on a bipartisan basis, I took what was passed out of the Commerce Committee on a bipartisan basis, I took what was passed out of the Environment and Public Works Committee on a bipartisan basis and put them into one bill and that is what we have been working on. It is bipartisan legislation. It is too bad some tried to make it a partisan issue. There is nothing partisan about it. It was a bipartisan bill. But some who do not want any accomplishments in the Senate, who resent the fact we have been able to pass minimum wage; drought relief for farmers for the first time in 3 years; for the first time since President Bush has been President, we have gotten money for homeland security, over his objection--we had tried many times--we got $1 billion; we funded SCHIP; we funded the Government. You know, the Republicans left town and funded the Government only until February 1. We funded the Government until October 1.”