Political Quotes

“Madam President, I compliment the Senator from Colorado for his active participation in shaping this bill. Obviously, he is a very active member of our Commerce Committee and cares deeply and passionately about these issues. He was very involved in the issues that he addressed in his remarks and that were incorporated into this. They were simply and purely a credit to his persistence and hard work. They do make this bill much stronger. I appreciate his good work making that possible. I wish to say again what I had mentioned earlier today, and that is, as Senator Nelson and I put this bill together, it was done in regular order. We had on the order of seven hearings--either subcommittee or full committee--where we took testimony and tried to assemble the best ideas. We worked together with members of the committee, including the Presiding Officer, in shaping a bill that we brought to a markup-- getting it to the markup and through the markup. We adopted 57 amendments--34 Democratic amendments and 23 Republican amendments-- before it came to the floor. After coming to the floor last week, we have had 19 amendments that have been added. We have another 30 or thereabouts that have been cleared, if we could get objections withdrawn so that those amendments could get cleared. But we have some other amendments of Members who would like to get votes. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the following amendments be called up and reported by number: Sessions No.…”