Political Quotes

“today, we overwhelmingly passed a very important bill that will affect the lives of all consumers, which is everybody in this country in the future. The gulf coast energy security bill was passed overwhelmingly today with a vote of 71 to 25. We just passed this bill an hour and a half ago or so. At that point, we thanked our various colleagues. But in conversations after that among my colleagues, Democrats and Republicans, we all remarked that this is the way legislation should be passed: bipartisan, working together, a lot of hard work on the floor, a lot of preparatory work, involvement of staff soliciting a lot of input as we go through careful deliberation and passage of a bill that will be to the benefit of every American. It is a great victory for the American people. Our colleagues were recognized earlier. Most people pointed, first and foremost, and appropriately, to Senator Domenici who stayed focused on the bill, who led the bill that was passed last year, now 54, 53 weeks ago, a bill that has transformed the framework through which we review advances in energy and energy policy, and this bill being the next major step in addressing supply and production of American homegrown energy. We thank Senator Domenici for his leadership on both those bills. This evening, the Senate turned to the Department of Defense appropriations bill.…”