Harry Reid: “While the acting leader is here, I want the record to reflect we are doing everything we can to cooperate in the…”

“While the acting leader is here, I want the record to reflect we are doing everything we can to cooperate in the consideration of this Energy bill. There was an hour we could have done nothing because there was no one here to do anything because they are meeting at the White House. In an effort to expedite matters, there was an order pending on the Singapore and Chile trade agreements. There are 7 hours of debate in an order here before we vote on that; we used an hour of that time even though that was not anything we had to do. If we were trying to ``slow walk,'' as was said here today, that would have been an easy way to slow walk. The Senator from California came to the floor and used her hour. The record should reflect this Energy bill is a very complex bill. People in good faith have different views on the legislation. As I said this morning, there is not a single Democratic Senator who does not want an Energy bill.”