Harry Reid: “I say to my friend, the junior Senator from Arizona, I don't know where he heard that the new Democratic leadership was…”

“I say to my friend, the junior Senator from Arizona, I don't know where he heard that the new Democratic leadership was not going to move forward on energy. We are most happy to move forward on energy. There are all kinds of problems, as the Senator knows. The President has an energy program he has put forward. There are not many specifics with it, but we should move forward and pass those issues on which we agree. Those issues on which we disagree, we can debate and vote up or down. The Senator has said what we believe is important. We have to start approaching some of these problems in a bipartisan fashion. We hope that can be done on energy. There is no question that there is a lot of dialog about energy and, of course, there are all kinds of things being said, such as 'the GOP, gas, oil and plutonium.' I don't think that gets us anyplace. There has been a lot of bad news from California, but today there was some good news. The good news is that in California they have already found a way to conserve up to 11 percent of the electricity that they were using. That is significant. When Vice President Cheney said that conservation was a good personal habit but it wouldn't do anything to solve the energy crisis, I don't think he really believes that. It may not have come out the way he wanted it. We know there has to be conservation along with anything we do to stimulate production.”