Senate Proceeding on Oct 25th, 2007 :: 7:35:31 to 7:38:23
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Trent Lott: way we succeed politically in this country is not simply by going out to the wealthy and the powerful begging if more for more and more campaign contributions which is what happens so often in congress,

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Speech By: Trent Lott

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Trent Lott: but he understood that the way you can win elections is by rallying ordinary people at the grass roots level and perhaps that achievement from a political perspective will be what he will most be remembered

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Trent Lott: for. i know that in minnesota, what he did was organize at the grass roots and brought thousands and thousands of people who had not been involved in the political process together to stand up under

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Trent Lott: a progressive program for economic justice and for a world of peace.~ and he understood profoundly something that many here do not address, that change take place from the bottom not from the top. that when

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Trent Lott: millions of people stand up and say it's imperative that we have economic justice in this country, that we have ateletext livable wage, that

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Trent Lott: we have a health care program which guarantees health care to all of our people, that we protect our environment, when that comes from the grass roots, then we will succeed. so he was a tireless

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Trent Lott: advocate of grass-roots politics. so i just want to say, as someone who worked with paul, who was very fopped of both he and sheila -- who was very fond of both he and sheila, that the vision that

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Trent Lott: they brought forth is something that i hope that i will do my best to continue advocating for. his loss was a loss for the working people of this country, for the vast number of people in this country,

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Trent Lott: and for the united states senate. and i will not forget what paul wellstone stood for. thank you very much, mr. president. a senator: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk

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Trent Lott: will call the roll. quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from mississippi. mr. lott: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from mississippi. mr. lott: i ask the quorum call be

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Trent Lott: temporarily dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lott: mr. president, i just say to our colleagues, senator lautenberg is here, the chairman of the subcommittee, and he's working with

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Trent Lott: senator murray on a couple of amendments and we have a couple of amendments by senator demint that we have cleared and we are hoping that we'll have a chance to visit with senator demint or some of

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Trent Lott: his representatives here momentarily maybe can clear some other amendments. i want to thank senator demint for coming over. he actually came over with a block of nine amendments and we're working through

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Trent Lott: those. i think some of them we can certainly accept and we'll work through the rest of them. but i just wanted to say along with senator lautenberg that senator reid was very generous yesterday in agreeing

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Trent Lott: that we wouldn't complete this bill until senators have had a chance to review it and come up with amendments, even as late as tuesday morning, provided they were germane. otherwise, we could finish

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Trent Lott: that bill -- this bill this afternoon afternoon. now, we have another issue that's been interjected here, of course, and that's the internet tax issue and i know that members on both sides and leadership are

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Trent Lott: working out when and how we would get to a vote on that important issue, because next thursday, if we don't come up with something, the internet moratorium on taxes will expire november the 1st. so

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Trent Lott: we've got to deal with this issue. but i would -- i would just to want call on my colleagues, if you have amendments on amtrak bill of any kind, come over and offer them. we'd work through them this

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Trent Lott: afternoon. i don't know what the leadership is going to decide with regard to votes later on this afternoon or even tomorrow, but there will not be any votes on monday, as was previously announced by

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Trent Lott: the leadership. so we're either going to have to deal with these other amendments that might come up this afternoon or tomorrow or tuesday. and i want to say that after we dispose of the internet

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Trent Lott: tax, everybody needs to know that this bill can and should and will be finished before sundown tuesday. that's what the leader, senator reid, wants. that's what i think senator mcconnell wishes to accommodate.

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Trent Lott: and it would be my intent to work with senator lautenberg to drive it to that conclusion. this is not a controversial bill bill. what's in here is -- is broadly supported. we've got 93 votes last time,

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Trent Lott: as we said, and we'll get more this time. the amendments that have been offered, the most -- the most the amendment has gotten was 27 votes. we're going to continue to look for ways to do even more

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Frank Lautenberg: that's positive for amtrak, but we need to go ahead and be done with this next -- next tuesday. and i'd yield the floor because i want to hear anything the chairman has to say at this point. mr.