LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: To Washington now, where Vice President Cheney is addressing a group.</s>DICK CHENEY, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: It's one of the first times we've ever done that that I can recall when we met both the House and Senate side together. Our basic purpose was to come and say thank you, to thank the members for all the tremendous work they have done over these last several times. I've been involved in one way or another now at the national level in Washington, going back to about 1968, and this is far and away the most productive period I've ever seen in terms of work between the executive and the legislative branch and substantive work that we've gotten done for the American people. We talked about the tax cut promise that was made and has been kept and delivered. The checks are already going out.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. Vice President, thank you. It's a great honor...</s>HARRIS: Well, we were just listening there to Vice President Dick Cheney there, who has been -- is on Capitol hill this morning. He says there he went to there to thank those House members who -- and Senate members -- who have helped push the Bush agenda along. He says he's seen -- now, the most movement, he says: In the past six months, this has been the most productive period I've ever seen in terms of getting things done. He says that -- he also ticked off a few of the items that have gotten through the House and the Senate in various forms: tax cut relief -- tax cut -- and, actually, Trent Lott actually held up his tax check, we saw there -- education reform, the energy bill, which was passed in the House. And also he did mention about movement on patients' bill of rights as well. Now, we should mention that we understand the Democrats will be having an event where they are going to be speaking and giving their side of the story in about another hour and a half from now. And we'll have live coverage of that. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
Dick Cheney Speaks at Republican Rally