Political Quotes

“I thank the Senator for his leadership on North Korea, and I thank him for speaking. Mr. President, I will be very brief, as I normally am. This bill has taken passion, tenacity, and all of us working together to bring out the best in this body and to get to this point where we are today. I want to thank everybody who has been involved. Senator Cardin has been an outstanding ranking member. As always, we worked together, just as we did today on another markup, to get to where we are. We have Senators Crapo and Brown. I think there were about four committees working to get this piece of legislation out. It was an incredible effort working around the clock for days and nights. I want to thank them for their leadership. I want to thank Senator Menendez, again, for his involvement, in particular on Iran, but on all of these issues. Certainly, thanks go to Senators McCain and Graham for their tremendous leadership in beginning the process, especially on Russia. Thank you so much. Thank you, Senator Schumer and Senator McConnell, for giving us the freedom to operate under regular order, the freedom to operate in the committee process, which I know all of us long to get to on all issues that we deal with here, and thank you to all of those Members who have been so involved. Our staffs have been incredible. Thank you so much for the professionalism, the knowledge, the energy, and the willingness to work late hours to make this happen.…”