Political Quotes

“First, let me compliment our new chairman of the Finance Committee. He is doing a great job on this bill. He is keeping the tenor bipartisan as he has done throughout his whole career. He has only been there a short while, but he is taking to the chairmanship like a fish to water. I wish to follow up. There is so much that is bipartisan in this bill. It was a bipartisan bill that passed out of committee unanimously. I worked on an amendment with Senator Roberts that Senator Coons had originated for the R&D credit with Senators Cardin, Isakson, and Blunt to improve the section 181 live production incentive so we keep the film industry here, not London or Canada; Senators Portman and Cardin worked on energy efficiency; Senators Brown and Portman on disadvantaged workers; and Cantwell and Roberts on low-income housing tax credit. The list goes on and on. As a result, this bill has broad support: the Business Roundtable, Grover Norquist, as well as the NEA and Feeding America. So where are we. And I would like to further elaborate on what the chairman has said. We are willing to vote on amendments. I always think of my dear friend from Tennessee, Lamar Alexander, who remembers how the place used to work and constantly reminds us--and that is a very good and salutary thing in this body. He would say on most bills there would be bipartisan support in the committee.…”