Political Quotes

“I applaud and commend our leader for his brilliant statement. I acknowledge that the things that we do on a national level have direct impact on our States. I appreciate very much the Senator from South Dakota talking about the need to take care of the rural America. Ninety percent of the people in Nevada live in the Las Vegas and Reno metropolitan areas, but rural Nevada is in real need of help. I appreciate his directing our attention to the needs of rural Nevada. His comments about taxes also are so important. I remind all of my friends in the Chamber and those within the sound of my voice, these are not election conversion statements. We badly wanted to do tax measures last year. We tried very hard to get rid of all 64 provisions of the marriage penalty. We were unable to vote on that. We hope that something can be done this year to take care of penalties that married couples have in America. Also we were willing to do something dealing with the inheritances taxes. Again, we were unable to vote on our version, which I think clearly would have passed. On health care issues our leader talked about a prescription drug benefit, a Patients' Bill of Rights--these matters we also could have taken care of last year. Today there is a new spirit of bipartisanship in this body. I am confident, with the leadership of the Senator from Iowa on the Finance Committee, that we will be able to do a lot of the things we were unable to do last year.”