Senate Republicans Hold a News Conference On the Protect America Act

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Senate Republicans Hold a News Conference On the Protect America Act

SENATE REPUBLICANS HOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE ON THE PROTECT AMERICA ACT

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

SPEAKERS: SEN. JOHN CORNYN, R-TEXAS, VICE CHAIRMAN, REPUBLICAN CONFERENCE

SEN. CHRISTOPHER S. BOND, R-MO.

SEN. ORRIN G. HATCH, R-UTAH

SEN. LAMAR ALEXANDER, R-TENN. CHAIRMAN, REPUBLICAN CONFERENCE

[*] ALEXANDER: Good afternoon. I'm going to introduce Senator Bond and Senator Hatch and then Senator Cornyn to make brief statements.

But first, let me say this, that the American people have sent a clear signal to Washington: They want us to change the way we do business. And we Republicans and many Democrats in the United States Senate have been doing that.

At the end of the year, we had principled arguments and we passed an energy bill in a bipartisan way.

Earlier this year, we had principled arguments and then we came to a bipartisan result and passed substantially the bill that the House of Representatives had sent to us, and we did it...

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