William H. Frist: “briefly in response--really in agreement-- as we heard from the Democrat leader, we have a lot to do. We have an…”

“briefly in response--really in agreement-- as we heard from the Democrat leader, we have a lot to do. We have an ambitious agenda with a superb piece of legislation that we bring to the Senate early next week, the Energy bill, which addresses gasoline prices, energy independence, a move toward energy independence, issues important to the American people. In addition to appropriations bills, the Democratic leader mentioned stem cell research. I add to that the Department of Defense authorization which is ready for consideration. Asbestos--the distinguished Senator from Pennsylvania who was just here, Senator Specter, has worked so hard on that particular bill. That is important to job creation, to health care, to getting benefits to people who need it. We have a lot to do. I look forward to beginning that process. Next week, we have one more judge, Thomas Griffith, on Monday. Then we can go to the Energy legislation. So we have an ambitious agenda, but we are working together and we have made a huge amount of progress in the last week.”