Political Quotes

“if I may say to my friend, the distinguished Senator from Massachusetts, and my friend from Wyoming, we did not have time to do this legislation, but we had to take time to do this legislation. This is an example of how committees working together can get work done. Committees do a lot of work, but much of what comes out of the committees is done on a partisan basis. Democrats vote for it, Republicans vote against it. Frankly, we cannot get those bills to the floor. We cannot get them done. I repeat, we did not have time to do this legislation. We have so much to do. We have appropriations bills we need to do. As soon as we finish this bill, we are going to move to Homeland Security appropriations, which is essential. SCHIP legislation, we have to do that. We have to do the conference report on the 9/11 Commission recommendations. We have to complete the work we have done and gone so far down the road on ethics and lobbying reform. This is an example, and I say this to all committees, to work together such as these two men have worked together and we can get things done. That is how we were able to get the Energy bill passed earlier. We took those provisions from the Energy Committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee, and the Commerce Committee, on which there was unanimity, everyone agreed. I took those provisions and put them in a package, and that was the bill we passed in the Senate.”