I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of.

Congress should not be like the Super Bowl where you have to have one team that's going to win and another team that's going to be a loser.

Our struggle is to identify the sources of revenue and the means to obtain the funds.Without funds, all the planning and research studies can't help us.

When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together.

There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority.

Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.