Thomas Daschle: “from time to time I have come to the floor to discuss our progress since we became the majority as Democrats in the…”

“from time to time I have come to the floor to discuss our progress since we became the majority as Democrats in the Senate. I wanted to talk briefly about the accomplishments during this work period and the list of items we have attempted to address over the course of the now virtually 1 year that we have been in the majority. We took over officially during the month of July of last year. Technically, we are not quite there. But for all intents and purposes, we have now completed 1 year as a majority in the Senate. We began June with work on the supplemental appropriations bill, a key piece of legislation. That legislation passed in the Senate a couple of weeks ago. We then moved on to terrorism insurance. We passed that bill out of the Senate with an overwhelming vote. We passed legislation which expedites the extradition of terrorist suspects. The antiterrorism legislation passed about 10 days ago. We increased the debt limit on an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis. We passed the Defense authorization bill, thanks to the extraordinary leadership of our colleague from Michigan, Senator Levin. I might add that all of these issues--the supplemental appropriations, the terrorism insurance bill, the antiterrorism bill, the debt limit, and the Defense authorization bill--passed with overwhelming bipartisan majorities.”