Political Quotes

“we made a lot of progress yesterday. It may not seem that way because all we did was ethanol. There were a lot of activities going on behind the scenes to move this legislation forward. Senator Cantwell will offer her amendment this morning. I do not know how long that will take. The unfortunate death of Jim Exon, I hope, will not cause us to hold things up. I hope the two managers of the bill can have a number of amendments offered and stack those amendments, with the permission of the majority leader, and probably vote on those, we hope, in the morning sometime. The big issues left are a renewable standard for electricity, we have a number of global warming issues, and there are other issues. If we get the Cantwell amendment decided and we do the global warming amendments and electricity standards, I think we are down the road on this important piece of legislation. We need cooperation from both sides. It is an important piece of legislation. I know the President gave a speech yesterday wanting us to move forward. We want to move forward on it. Senators Domenici and Bingaman have done a very good job of getting us to where we are. ____________________”