Political Quotes

“I was distressed yesterday to hear comments on the floor relative to the duty of the U.S. Senate under the U.S. Constitution to determine--and we have the sole authority under the Constitution to determine--the issues as relating to the presence or absence of that degree of fraud or other conditions that would affect the outcome of the election in Louisiana. The subject has been discussed many times on the floor. As chairman of the Rules Committee, I have overall responsibility for the direction and the daily conduct of this investigation. I will later today either address the Senate or put in the Record a detailed accounting of everything that I, the staff of the committee, and others have done since the last time I reported to the Senate with regard to this very important case. But I wish to assure my colleagues that while I regret that the Democrats decided to walk out on the investigation that the Republican majority of the committee, and specifically myself, we have continued to fulfill what I and others regard as the bottom-line responsibility of the U.S. Senate, and that is to go and look at every reasonable source of potential evidence as it relates to fraud in this election.”