Political Quotes

“we are on the Gulf of Mexico energy security bill, a bill that has been very carefully crafted in a bipartisan way. It has been our approach from the outset. One of the real challenges we have is taking a bill which is delicate, in the sense that it has been carefully crafted, vetted, and addressed for the last year--and there are many other people who would like to add other energy amendments or bills to this single, focused step, this being built upon the comprehensive energy bill, a bipartisan bill that was passed a year ago this week. So it is a challenge to keep the body focused on this issue. In doing so, there are procedures here shortly that are important to accomplish delivering as many as a billion barrels of oil to the American people and over 5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, enough gas to heat or cool 6 million homes for 15 years. We have it within our grasp. We had a good vote yesterday morning in terms of getting on the legislation, which we are on, and now, from a leadership standpoint, we have to stay focused on this bill, even though there are a lot of other good ideas out there, and complete this step and our action in the Senate. Thus, I will go through a series of steps here, and we will have comments on that. Amendment No. 4713”