Political Quotes

“Well, we really are appreciative of your support. And many other Democrats have come on this issue, and we both have been working both sides of the aisle. If we get a chance, and I am going to share with you that we have been promised that there is going to be an energy bill in Resources tomorrow as part of reconciliation, and we have chosen not to try to amend that, because that is going to be a complicated bill. We are getting great resistance. So we have been promised that if we do not amend that bill, that my bill, our bill, will be given consideration in the Resources Committee, we will have a hearing in the near future. We will have a vote, if we can get it out of committee, and I have strong belief we can, because we have already successfully passed that amendment on another bill that they have since held up and did not bring it to the floor because of our amendment winning, opening up the Outer Continental Shelf, then we have been promised that we will a chance on the floor. So all I have asked for is for a timely format where we can debate this in committee, have a hearing first and then mark up the bill and pass it, bring it to the floor, and have a debate on this issue alone, not tied into all of the other issues that are going on the reconciliation act, but get focused on that. I was promised that by the leadership of the House. So I am really looking forward, because that is what I have been wanting. It is interesting to me in my district.…”