Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the Senator from Missouri and I have worked on a number of issues together. I so much appreciate her comments. While I certainly cannot speak to what the position may be of leadership of whatever party on this particular issue, I will tell the Senator that I am absolutely a cosponsor and I absolutely agree that political winds are blowing, I might add, on both sides of the aisle. The President tried to announce something yesterday that we all know is not as strong as this amendment. It was an attempt, in fairness, to keep this amendment from gaining support because this is, as you mentioned, statutory. So it happens on both sides of the aisle. I am proud of the fact that the Senator from Missouri is standing up today supporting this legislation. I support it proudly. Again, the winds are blowing on both sides. I know there are liberal groups calling in trying to get folks on the other side not to vote for it. We have conservative groups on our side calling trying to get people not to vote for it. Again, all we are putting in place is a mechanism to try to solve this problem. People can vote against the recommendations. At the very least, we would benefit from some deep thought and a lot of work on data to see where we sit as it relates to the deficit issues.…”