Political Quotes

“in looking over the course of the last week, much of the focus of the last 40 hours or so, the last 2 days, has been on the issue of judges. The three cloture votes failed this morning. Earlier in the week, we really accomplished a reasonable amount, as I look over what we have done. The Syria Accountability Act--Chairman Lugar and Senator Santorum and many others in the body who brought that forward had it debated, and it was passed. The MILCON conference report was completed this week, and the Defense authorization conference report. We had another bill, the armed cargo pilots bill. We had the District of Columbia Retirement Equity Act by Senator Collins and others. Today, we had the OPIC reauthorization, which we just did, with a lot of bipartisan work done by Chairman Lugar and others; a bill that has been worked on for a long period of time in a bipartisan way with Senator Mike Enzi, the Workforce Investment Reauthorization Act, a lot of work reflected in that bill. I am glad we have completed action on that bill today.”