Political Quotes

“this is a bill that has been a bipartisan bill. The Senator from South Dakota has mentioned on numerous occasions, and again in this letter, that the concern is--and in the newspaper article--that things have been put in conference that were not either the scope of the conference or slipped in without the minority's knowledge of what was going to happen. I just ask the Senator from South Dakota and all those who are objecting to this bill going to conference to look at the history of this legislation. The history of this legislation has been bipartisan. Senator Joe Lieberman and I have worked to put this bill together. It has priorities on the Democratic side. It has priorities on the Republican side. We have worked to take out everything that could be controversial. At a press conference we had the other day, Senator Lieberman said this bill is simply all good. There is not anything bad or controversial. There is not any kind of strong opposition to this bill on either side of the aisle. If there was strong opposition on either side of the aisle, it would not be in this bill. We have a bill that provides money to those who are serving those in need in our society. We have a bill on which the track record through the Finance Committee and through the Senate floor has shown we have worked together. Senator Grassley and Senator Baucus have worked together in committee to pass a bill unanimously out of that committee, on a bipartisan basis.”