Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we are finally here on the floor, and I would like to thank my colleague Senator Shaheen for her comments and for working with me over the last few years to get to this point where we can be talking about something that brings us together, I hope, as a Senate, which is this effort to ensure that we have an energy plan for America that can help bring back jobs, help fix our trade deficit, and help spark an American manufacturing renaissance, and that is the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act. This is about energy efficiency. It is about using what we have more efficiently, and I think that makes a lot of sense for us to move forward. As Senator Shaheen said, it is a first step, but it is an important step. I thank the chair and ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee--Senator Wyden, who spoke earlier, and Senator Murkowski, who is with us on the floor and who spoke earlier--for all the support they have given us over the last few years to get this through the committee process and the markup process and to add some important elements to the legislation, and we will see more as the amendment process proceeds. I also thank Leader Reid for helping us bring this bipartisan legislation to the floor today, and I thank Senator McConnell, who has been very supportive of us moving this process forward.…”