Harry Reid: “the Republican leader and the Democratic leader appointed Senator McConnell and this Senator to work on the legislative…”

“the Republican leader and the Democratic leader appointed Senator McConnell and this Senator to work on the legislative aspects of the 9/11 Commission. If the cooperation among Members is as good as Senator McConnell and I have had, we are going to be able to move forward on this bill, I think with bipartisanship. And we need to move forward. I think the 22 of us who serve on this task force feel that way. We have to understand how much there is to do these next few days. There is a lot to do. We had a very productive last 2 weeks when most people expected a tremendous amount of partisanship this last little bit before we break for the elections. But from my observation it has been the opposite. There has been cooperation, and we have gotten a lot done. The next 2 weeks are important. Also by virtue of the schedule we will have a difficult time this week because Tuesday we have an event for retiring Senators. That has been scheduled for months and there is no way out of that. That is Tuesday evening. Then, of course, Thursday is the first Presidential debate. It makes a lot of sense to me that we be in tune with that. I know there are some Senators who have events related to that. We will have to keep those things in mind. I hope we can move forward on these matters which the leader has talked about. There is an opportunity to get a few things done with a limited time agreement.”