Rob Portman: “My point is if you go down the list, whether it is prescription drug coverage, whether it is the pension security bill…”

“My point is if you go down the list, whether it is prescription drug coverage, whether it is the pension security bill before us today, whether it is the faith-based initiative which passed this House on a bipartisan basis, whether it is having a budget, the Senate does not even have a budget, the Senate has not been able to, I am not sure how I can characterize this, but the Senate has not been able to act and the House has. I just think it is a little surreal to stand here and say that somehow in this prescription drug issue, the House has not acted and the Senate has is not accurate and to say that somehow this pension bill is not good because it does not deal with executive compensation issues which have nothing to do with what we were trying to do at the time, which was to give people a little more security and more rights with regard to their pensions.”