Political Quotes

“the Republican leader came to my office a few minutes ago and indicated he had some family situation that he needed to attend to. It was no emergency or anything, but it is late. It is a quarter to 8. On WRDA, we have cleared that on our side. And we have some nominations we have also cleared on our side. I am confident that WRDA--which we were planning to go to that Tuesday night after we finished the stem cell legislation--I am very confident we can work that out. As I indicated, we are set mechanically to go forward on WRDA. It has been cleared on both sides, even the time on the amendments. We thought we had the nominations worked out dealing with a very important agency of our Government. I am confident, I repeat, that we will be able to do that as soon as people are back in their offices. So I do not in any way retract my statements about how it is possible to work on things together around here. This was shown with the difficult time that Senators had working on the request that was brought before the Senate just a half hour ago or so. It is a very important bill. I have been chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee on two separate occasions. It is very difficult to get things out of that committee because of different feelings people have on issues. But Senator Inhofe and Senator Boxer worked very well and got it to the floor.…”