04/29/2009
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"I want to thank Peter Welch. He has got 40 different places he is supposed to be today, and he has been so concerned about this issue."
"I have joined with some of the most conservative Republicans in the Senate as well as some of the most liberal Democrats, and we have been effectively able to get legislation through."
"I would note for the record, because this will be a part of the permanent record of the U.S. Senate, that at least half the hands in the room went up."
"We have to get ahead of addiction. We cannot let it corrode our lives and our communities."