Political Quotes

“administration budget requests and congressional appropriations bills are a clear reflection of our priorities as a nation. As was discussed on the floor earlier today, it seems we had, from the administration, a focus on Iraq and nothing else. I am happy to see a bill just came from the House. I would like very much to see other things coming from the House, not the least of which is the rest of the appropriations bills and the matters that are now in conference. No. 1 on the top of my list is the terrorism insurance bill. We need to have that done. I think now we have the second debacle in a row in Florida. We have election reform that we have passed. It would be nice to finish that conference report as well as the Patients' Bill of Rights and the generic drug bill that seems lost over there sometimes. We have a lot of things that we need to complete. And, of course, bankruptcy reform. Senator Carper came to me this morning, here on the floor, and told me how desperately his constituents feel this is necessary to help many different industries.”