Political Quotes

“I think the work that we did this past several days on the Homeland Security appropriations bill should set the tone and the direction that we can take the next few weeks to complete any number of appropriations bills. If we continue with the same bipartisan spirit that we have had before--I know we have had a lot of extraneous matters, just dealing with the matters dealing with the appropriations bills as we started the Homeland Security appropriations bill with more than 200 amendments. We were able to work through those. I don't know how many votes we had, but we had a lot of votes. I would hope that next week we can make some serious progress on some of these appropriations bills before we get into the last 2 weeks of being here when we have to deal with the September 11 report and other such matters. We have the right to pat ourselves on the back for the work we have done the last few days in the Senate relating to this appropriations process.”