Political Quotes

“I want to shift gears now and express my appreciation to lots of different people. I mentioned briefly this morning my congratulations to Senator Harkin, Senator Chambliss, Senator Baucus, and Senator Grassley, but there are other team members who worked so hard to get this most important bill done, the most important bill being the farm bill. We only do a farm bill every 5 years. There are some who say it took us 5 years to get this bill done. That is really not the case, but we worked on it for a long time, worked very hard. I mentioned in my caucus yesterday that this was an example of how we should legislate because we had conferences. We have been kind of getting out of the habit of having a public conference where Democrats and Republicans are appointed and sit down and try to work out the differences on a bill. That is what they did here. I think it was exemplary legislative work. Was there any side that was more right than the other side? No. But they worked together to come up with a fine piece of legislation.”