Political Quotes

“as I expressed to the distinguished majority leader personally, and I say so today, and I have said so publicly on a number of occasions, I wish this week we had been working on something else. The fact is, we have now what I consider a bump in the road out of the way. I am glad we are now going to move on to legislative business. We have so much to do in the next few, literally, weeks we have remaining in this legislative session. I appreciate very much the people on both sides of the aisle allowing us to move forward on the Energy bill. It is a big piece of legislation that is vitally important to the people of America. Of course, in a big piece of legislation such as this, there will be problems, and certainly there will be in this bill. Again, as I said previously, I am grateful to Senators Domenici and Bingaman for getting the bill to us initially. It is a bill that is developed by consensus of the committee. That speaks well of both Senator Domenici and Senator Bingaman and the members of the committee. That is going to be some heavy lifting in legislative terms. The distinguished majority leader has set a very high mark for the Senate before we leave here. He wants to finish at least two appropriations bills. I think it is possible we can do three appropriations bills. I hope we can do that.…”