Political Quotes

“I have been informed the Presiding Officer has received something I have never gotten in all the many years I have been in the Senate, the Golden Gavel Award. For those who are listening, it is given to those people who preside 100 hours, and you have done that. That is tremendous. It is only July, but it shows what a workhorse the Senator from Rhode Island is. There is no better indication than that--presiding. Of course, we will present this award to Senator Whitehouse in the first caucus we have in September. On this, the most important legislation we dealt with today, FISA--no one worked on it any more than you. The hours you put in on that, well past midnight--you were the talk of the Judiciary Committee. Even though you are a junior member of that committee, your experience as attorney general and as a U.S. attorney, doing all the good things you have done, certainly qualified you, and people looked to you for guidance on that most important piece of legislation. I say to my friend from Rhode Island how fortunate we are to have you in the Senate.”