Political Quotes

“If I may, Mr. President, let me first of all thank the Senator from Alaska for her leadership on the Energy bill. It has been a long time since we have had one on the floor, working in a most rational, commonsense approach trying to bring all parties together. She has done a great job working with Maria Cantwell, the Democrat on our side from the State of Washington. I think we are finding there is a little bit of something for everybody, understanding that the energy policy should be an all-in policy. I come from a fossil fuel State and she comes from a fossil fuel State, and people think they can live without it. I think they can live better with it if we use technology, and that is what we have tried to push in this piece of legislation. On the opiate issue, I have a passion. I have watched it, and it is devastating. When you have young kids coming to you and telling you that they have watched their parents die of overdose, they have watched their families split up, with the kids taken in different directions, it makes your heart bleed and makes you think about future generations and what we are going to face. Then to have the Food and Drug Administration--I will give one example. It took them working 3 years to get all opiates to be reclassified from a schedule III to a schedule II. It took 3 years to get that done.…”