Political Quotes

“I want to start by thanking all of the Members--and I mean all of the Members--who have worked so diligently to produce this product. This is the product we produced with the so-called Gang of 8, but it turned into a bigger gang than that because more and more people want to work in a bipartisan way in the Senate. I have said: It is alive and well; we just have to exercise it more. We did that. We brought over the bicameral group, the Problem Solvers, and they were tremendously instrumental in being involved in this process. I am so pleased to have that bicameral work, bipartisan work. We need more of it, and we are going to basically demand more of it. But with this product right now, as the ``four corners'' are working, this is the template they have used. Leader Schumer has said that this is what they have used because the legislative language has already been produced. There might be some tweaks to it, but there are so many people. Let me tell you how it started. My dear friend Senator Durbin is here. After the election, we called each other back and forth, a few of us, saying: Something has to be done. Nothing is moving. People are hurting. We heard that all during the election, and they couldn't figure out why we hadn't done anything. I had no good explanation because, basically, the two leaders on both sides of the aisle were locked, and I said we didn't know how to break it.…”