Political Quotes

“let's not have revisionist history. Let's have real, valid history. Shaheen-Portman was worked on for weeks last fall. Shaheen and Portman worked on this new version of the bill for months, and they worked out many amendments in the committee. They came to me and said they have all this worked out--Shaheen and Portman and a number of other Senators. I said: Great. So before one of our recesses, the day we were getting ready to leave, they came to me and said: What we need to know and what would be even better is if we had a sense-of-the-Senate resolution on Keystone. I said: We already agreed to what we are going to do. The bill is different with all of this input, such as the Workforce Investment Act, which we will take up this afternoon. So I came back and said: OK, we will have a sense-of-the-Senate; that is fine. And we are going to do this as soon as we get back. We came back and then I was told: Well, we don't want a sense-of-the- Senate resolution; we want an up-or-down vote here. I said: OK, let's do it. And that is when that still wasn't good enough. That still wasn't good enough because they want the issue. The energy efficiency bill is a good bipartisan bill. It is like the one we are going to work on this afternoon. It is a complex bill, but the differences have been worked out, and we should go ahead and vote on it.…”