Political Quotes

“I appreciate the opportunity to follow the chair and the ranking member of the Banking Committee and the chair and the ranking member of the Agriculture Committee on this critically important debate. I commend their work, the great amount of work that has been done, actually, in a bipartisan fashion already on this important piece of legislation. There are differences. But an awful lot of work has gone into getting this product that now can be fully aired on the floor of the Senate. I want to pay particular compliments to my dear friend, someone I had the opportunity to actually work for close to 30 years ago, the chairman of the Banking Committee, who, while I am a new guy in the Senate, seems to me, on this bill, has kind of done it the old- fashioned way. He has had an open door to any Member of both sides of the aisle. As this issue got more and more complex, he asked various members of the committee to roll up their sleeves and take on portions. Senator Corker and I--and nobody has been a better partner than Bob Corker for me during this process--took on a major portion of the bill. Then, as we kind of got to the Senate floor, time and again--and I will come back to certain specific examples--he has said: How can we find that common ground that seems to be so often missing from this debate? I also commend the ranking member, Senator Shelby.…”