Political Quotes

“Mr. President, for the benefit of all Senators, we just sent to the House, again, the food safety legislation--extremely important legislation. I just got something on my desk today about a woman who is going to be--well, she was in the hospital a year and a half and is expected to be there for 2 more years as a result of eating some contaminated food. So it is so important. I am deeply appreciative of the cooperation from everyone, including my friend, the Republican leader, to help us get this done. It is very important for our country. Perfect legislation? No. But it is a broad step in the right direction. We haven't done anything in this regard for more than 100 years for our country, with all the change there has been in the processing of food. It is so important. I spoke to the Speaker tonight, and this will now pass the House when they come back Monday night or Tuesday. So that is extremely important. We had to file cloture on the continuing resolution to fund the government for the next couple of months. We hope to complete that on Tuesday. I hope that it won't be necessary to use any of the postcloture time. I rather doubt we will, but I certainly hope not. We are going to proceed, once cloture is invoked, to the cloture on the START treaty. We have made--from my observation as sort of an outsider watching all the good work of Senators Kerry and Lugar--some good progress on this, and I do hope this matter will pass. We will work on that as long as it takes.…”