Political Quotes

“let me just say when this came up, we sent the conferees last week, the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lofgren) and others had said, please work with us. I know there was skepticism, but at the end of the day I think we recognized that this legislation is far better than the current status quo in terms of the protection it gives to companies and people who have acted innocently and in good faith to try to fix the Y2K problem. So we took their suggestions. They have come over and have met us halfway. I think we have the final product. I would like to rehash this because I think it is important for American industry to know where the people come from as they try to decide these things, and I went through it in that manner. But we are here today because we recognize that there is a need and because they were ready to meet us halfway on that issue. So I am glad we have this final product. I am proud to stand up here as the chief sponsor of the legislation and say we have a product that I think does, in large part, what we intended for it to do when we started out. It does not do everything we wanted, for the reasons I outlined before, but again I want to urge all of my colleagues to vote yes on this.”