Political Quotes

“we are back on the Treasury-Transportation- Housing and Urban Development bill. The minority Member, my partner, Senator Murray, and I are ready to do business. I understand we are waiting for final negotiations from both sides on the potential two votes that we hope will be ready to be put forward early this afternoon. As soon as we know something about that and can reach an agreement, we will advise all Senators. In the meantime, the Kennedy amendment on minimum wage is pending. We expect there will be an alternative amendment which will be proposed, and that will be voted on right after or right before the Kennedy amendment. We ask all Members who have an amendment they want to file to please bring it in, and we hope we can work it out with them. If it is something that can be accepted, we would like to do so because we need to finish this bill--the sooner the better. The leaders have advised us that we will be in this week and weekend until we finish the bill. My personal preference would be to finish it this week and not on Friday afternoon or Saturday. It would be very helpful if they would bring in those amendments. Very shortly, we will be conferring with leadership on both sides to establish an agreed-upon deadline for filing all first-degree amendments. I thank the Chair.”