Political Quotes

“as the Chair and distinguished majority leader know, I am sorry we have spent so much time on judges, but the fact is I wish to express my appreciation to Democratic Senators for being so cooperative. Since the agreement was made a week or two ago, my Senators have been so cooperative. Senator Leahy has had to change his whole schedule around this Monday to take care of the Griffith nomination. There has been an agreement made that we are not going to use all the time on Pryor. I also express my appreciation to Senators Levin and Stabenow for allowing us to move forward on the Michigan judges. In spite of the fact that there are some hurt feelings as a result of the way the Michigan Senators were treated, they have agreed to set those aside and move forward on these two individuals. From all I have been able to determine, the two Michigan judges coming before us are well qualified, and there will not be any rancorous debate about either one of them. But I just want the majority leader to know that we have moved forward on these matters as expeditiously as possible, in spite of the relatively difficult time we have had arriving at this point. I look forward next week to a vigorous debate on the Energy bill. It is great that we are going to be legislating here for a change. This is an extremely important piece of legislation.…”