Political Quotes

“So this Senate has debated a change in our campaign reform laws. It has debated education reform and passed a bill on the subject. It has debated tobacco legislation. And it is more than willing and will debate health care legislation with the proposals of both parties considered in that connection. But no majority party, no majority leader, has ever permitted a set of circumstances under which the minority not only determines the agenda, but when the agenda is to be debated and how many times it is to be debated, even though that prevents a debate on vitally important appropriations bills for the conduct of the government, and in this case a debate on an important product liability bill. As the manager of that bill, had the minority leader said we would like to do what we did just 2 years ago and have a debate and several amendments about product liability, the way that the senior Senator from Connecticut was speaking about the subject a few moments ago, I have no doubt that that desire would be granted.”