Political Quotes

“Again, one final comment. I know the Presiding Officer is a new Member as well. This is one of those moments when there has been a year and a half of bipartisan work that has gone on, when there seems to be a commonality of interest in what the goals of financial reform are. I don't know about the Presiding Officer, I don't know about my friend from Colorado, but I never got the memo that said our job wasn't actually to get stuff done. There were legitimate, major policy differences in the health care discussion. But in this discussion, there are things that need to be worked out, but the goals we have all agreed on. The bipartisan working groups have been at it for more than a year. I implore my colleagues from the other side of the aisle, I don't know if maybe there was some procedural shenanigans, that kind of back and forth. But I hope my colleagues from the other side of the aisle--I see my colleague actually who has great expertise in the financial sector, the new Senator from North Carolina coming in--some of the newer folks, whatever the reason our colleagues on the other side didn't want to get to a real discussion of the bill, I hope they can come back later tonight, first thing tomorrow, and we can move to this bill, talk about it, put forward those amendments. I know I will have some bipartisan amendments to make the bill stronger. I know my colleagues will. At the end of the day, let us get the people's business done.…”