Political Quotes

“Reserving the right to object. As my esteemed colleague from Tennessee is aware, and as we are all aware, the Senate operates under unanimous consent, reserving the right and the prerogative of any one Senator to object to moving forward when consent is not present. Now, as the Senator from Tennessee made clear yesterday in his remarks on the floor, he has declined to provide unanimous consent for a time agreement moving forward in this postcloture time period. I am sure it will then come as no surprise to him that there are Senators on both sides of the aisle who object to unanimous consent on one or more of the amendments listed in his proposed list today. I am sure that he offers the same level of respect to those Senators, in denying their unanimous consent, as has been offered to him as well. Now, I am proud to report that, throughout this bipartisan process, we have produced, over the course of a number of months, a piece of legislation drafted entirely by the independent and bipartisan Members who have worked together over this number of months. We have introduced the legislation, and we have had robust debate and, I am proud to say, the consideration of 22 amendments on this bipartisan bill. It has been an open and welcoming process. As we are currently in the postcloture debate time, again, as I have mentioned, it requires unanimous consent to both move forward with all of the amendments or any of the amendments as well as a time agreement.…”