Political Quotes

“on a separate topic, I want to take a few moments before going out on recess, looking back over the last several weeks and sharing with my colleagues some of the very positive things we have been able to accomplish, positive issues and bills that will have a direct impact on people throughout America and also, indeed, throughout the world. We have had a productive year. Among our many legislative accomplishments, the Senate passed the Laci and Conner's law, the Crime Victims Act, the child nutrition reauthorization, and the Internet access tax moratorium. Each of these initiatives expresses our values. Each will help protect the American family. In this past month, since the last recess, we have been able to build on those successes. I commend my colleagues for their tremendous work, their hard work, each and every day over July. We had the opportunity today to receive the report from the 9/11 Commission, and we have heard about it on the floor of the Senate today. We heard about it in our briefings today and yesterday. We have heard us all commend the 9/11 Commission for their efforts to produce a genuinely bipartisan document. That is the way it was received. In talking to the Commission members, that is the way each step along the way the 9/11 Commission acted: in a bipartisan manner. I have not had the opportunity to read the whole report. It is a large book people have had on the floor today. But I have read the summary and been in on the briefings.…”