Harry Reid: “I don't know how enough could be said about the way this bill was managed. This is the largest Defense bill in the…”

“I don't know how enough could be said about the way this bill was managed. This is the largest Defense bill in the history of the world and the United States. Yet we started this just a few hours ago, and it is finished and no one can complain about this not having been scrubbed. Staff from all the offices have had the opportunity to come and do what they believe is appropriate. But the good work on the bill was not only done here on the floor but in subcommittee and the full committee--which has just been topped off by the remarkable good work of these two sensational Senators. I speak for both sides of the aisle that if a chapter had to be written on how to manage a bill, it should go to Senators Inouye and Stevens because that is how a bill should be managed. I have never seen anything like it.”