We haven't made progress. We've moved back from progress, ... a half-measure only. |
We hope our Republican colleagues will look at our plan, ... If they do, we think they'll like what they see. |
We hope that they will also announce that they will release all of the information that the 9/11 commission has requested, ... Certainly having the testimony is good, but having all of the information would be even better. |
We just didn't think we ought to hold the millions of seniors hostage to that day when some comprehensive reform can be enacted, |
We just turned down $292 million for Indian health care in this country. We're told that we can't afford it, and we don't have the resources, |
We know that there are still some in the Senate who think that they may have a chance to keep this bill from becoming law, ... We say to them, 'Look what happened in the House. Opponents in the House used every conceivable argument and excuse, every imaginable ploy. They failed and so will you.' |
We lost an extraordinary judge, an extraordinary member of the Supreme Court, someone who has had a profound impact on this country and its legal system, |
We may have had differences of opinion about what brought us to this point, but the president is commander-in-chief, and today we unite behind him as well, |
We must prepare for it now. We cannot afford to dig ourselves into a fiscal hole as we did in the 1980s. We cannot afford to return to the fiscal irresponsibility and weakness of times past. |
We need to stand together to give our first responders the tools they need ... to protect our communities from terrorist attack and other tragedy. |
We ought not politicize the rhetoric about war and life and death. |
We ought not politicize this war. |
We therefore expect more say on how the Senate is run, and that includes everything from deciding what bills are debated on the floor, what goes into conference reports, to deciding committee chairs and ratios, and assigning committee staff and office space, |
We think that's wrong, |
we think they'll like what they see. |