Political Quotes

“I hope we will be able to work our way through this issue and come up with something appropriate and move on. We have a number of judges who are pending now. They should not have to wait around. In the situation we now have there is no question the committees are working so well together. Senator Specter and Senator Leahy are working well together. I do not like the asbestos bill. I am not sure there is anything that can be done to make me happy about the asbestos bill because I have such strong feelings about the people who died of mesothelioma and asbestosis. But one of the things I did when I became leader, I told my ranking members that they were their committees. They could do whatever was appropriate in the confines of that committee. Senator Leahy did what he thought was appropriate. I may disagree with that asbestos bill, but he had every right to work with Senator Specter and come up with a bill. That bill is here at the desk right now. That is the way things should work. Senators Specter and Leahy have gotten so much done during the first few months they have been working together. There is a lot more we can do. That Judiciary Committee has some of the most interesting but controversial issues that we have. When you have two people working together as closely as Leahy and Specter have been, we can expect some things on the floor of the Senate that will be interesting and controversial, but that is our job.…”