Political Quotes

“as we bring this first session of the 109th Congress to a close, I once again thank my colleagues, the staff, the pages, and everyone who contributes so much to our work in this Chamber. I want to give a special thanks to the few pages we have remaining this evening. Most of them have gone back home to their families, and we have a few volunteers who stayed behind. They are instrumental in allowing us to carry out our work each day. It is very rare that we actually say thank you. I want to take this opportunity to say thank you for volunteering to be with us over what has been a pretty long last couple of days. So I thank Rafi Bortnick, Katie Rember, and Dan Tinsley. I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy holiday season. I hope that everyone does get some rest and spends some time with family and friends and neighbors and others in their communities and returns back here in January ready to roll up your sleeves and continue right where we left off. ____________________”