Political Quotes

“Thank you very much. TSCA Reform Mr. President, let me first mention that you don't see many things around this Chamber that are truly bipartisan, and you are about to see one now. I have to give credit to the Senator from New Mexico for the great job he has done in making it a possibility to even be talking about this now. I am honored to be chairman of the public works committee. We do a lot of significant work in that committee. We just passed out arguably the second most significant bill of the year, which was the highway reauthorization bill, and others. It is a very busy committee. However, the issue we are concerned about today--and I want to talk about it a little bit--is the bill we have been working on for a long period of time. We had a great Member--Frank Lautenberg--of the Senate for a number of years. He and I became good friends on this committee when Democrats were for 8 years the majority party, and prior to that we were in the majority for a long time. During that timeframe, Frank Lautenberg and I became good friends. We had some things in common people were not aware of; that is, we both came from the corporate world. We were involved in doing things together and looking at things through a corporate mind. But this bill we are talking about now is one where we are enjoying 60 cosponsors. I would mention that Bonnie Lautenberg is in the Gallery today. She has been so cooperative.…”