Political Quotes

“All the time. I appreciate working with him. We were able to pretty well decide when matters would come up and make sure that both Republicans and Democrats had a chance to bring up all their amendments, and we adopted 136 or so amendments, including second- degree amendments, and all but one or two of them were bipartisan votes. I appreciate what he said and I enjoyed working with him on that. I will have more to say at another time about his amendment. But I just note for the past several days Senators have been discussing the immigration bill, and I am glad the Senate has now turned to actually consider it. We have had a lot of talk about getting to it, including, of course, the time spent in the Judiciary Committee. I intend to file a handful of amendments to the bill today, and I would encourage others to do the same so we can get to work without further delay. The bipartisan immigration bill is a measure the Senate should come together on to pass. We should send to the House the best bill we can, and I think the large majority of Senators want to do that. We should do what is right, what is fair, and what is just. The House has to consider comprehensive immigration reform legislation without any further delay. This year one of the most important bills we enacted into law was the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act. From the outset I worked with my Republican colleague Senator Crapo to develop that legislation in a bipartisan way.…”