From
Harry Ried's Senate Web Site:
As we said from the beginning of this struggle, our fight wasn't over some obscure rule of the Senate. It was a fight for Americans' fundamental rights and against the abuse of power.
And I'm here today to say that fight has not ended. It is only beginning.
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Time and again, the American people have seen George Bush and the Republican leadership choose between their partisan interests and the people's interest. And every time, they have chosen an ideological agenda over an American agenda.
When George Bush and the Republican leadership make their decisions, the whispered wishes of a few right wing activists drown out the pleas of America's families.
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Americans want their agenda - their jobs, their health care, their security - to get back on the front burners of the nation's agenda.
Americans are coming to realize this Republican Congress is out of touch with the real problems of working families and that the agenda the Republicans are advancing is at odds with what people in this country really care about.
We Democrats have something better to offer.