Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the manager of the Wall Street reform bill-- at least most of it--is the chairman of the Banking Committee, Senator Dodd. As I reflect on what we have been through with him in this Congress, it is really incredible. We withstood seven filibusters on housing legislation he was responsible for managing. At the height of the housing crisis, we were trying to deal with seven filibusters. We have worked our way through many different issues he has been front and center on, including health care. He has done this with such remarkable strength. We have had situations he has been thrown into as a result of the death of Senator Kennedy that will be written about in the history books for some time. And then, with no breathing room in store for him, immediately he had to go to this very important piece of legislation dealing with the Wall Street crisis. We started on this 2 weeks ago tomorrow. We have been stalled ever since. Maybe today there will be a breakthrough and we will be able to legislate. We don't have a lot of time to spend on this bill. We have so much important work to do that has been held up as a result of scores of filibusters conducted by Republicans. An indication of how they treat themselves: we had amendments their Senators offered yesterday that we were willing to accept, and they refused to let us do so. But that is nothing unusual.…”