Political Quotes

“I want to assure the Senate that I said in Louisiana, as I concluded the second hearing--and we had a total of 4 days of hearings--it would be my intention to come back and recommend to the Rules Committee and the leadership of the Senate that I have another hearing, at which time we will assess in specific the voluminous amount of record material now in our possession from the gambling industry and that within a period of perhaps a week after that I would schedule a second meeting, at which time I would give to the full Committee on Rules all of the evidence, my own assessment, and then entertain such resolutions as I or other members may wish to submit. That I think can be done within a 3-week period of time, as I roughly outlined this morning to my distinguished leader. But I decided on that schedule 10 days ago. Now, I say to you that thus far there has been no evidence which, in the judgment of this Senator, has impugned Senator Landrieu, but that is not the underlying issue. It is whether or not there were other factors in this election which could have affected the outcome as a consequence of criminal fraud. And I have said, much to the discouragement of many, that thus far, after the first hearing in Louisiana, there was no body of evidence which I felt could meet that burden. I cannot make the same statement after the second hearing in Louisiana, because I haven't had the opportunity to assess four boxes of information.…”