Political Quotes

“The majority leader is correct that we are anxious for this bill. We were pleased, Senator Feinstein and I, to go to the press conference, but we had not read the 700 pages of the bill. But we do hope very much, as I know you do, that we can work all these problems out. And we do stand ready. I would say to the majority leader, on behalf of my leadership, we are ready to enter a time agreement on this veto message override. We were hoping to start probably at 9 and finish probably at 12. We have had many colleagues come over for the last 2 days in morning business, as I am sure my colleague is aware, to speak about this issue. We think in 3 hours, the time equally divided, we could have voted at noon. The problem we had on your side was they did not want a vote at noon. So I just want to make it clear that there is a great willingness to work with the majority leader to get this done and to move on. I share his hope that we can work out our problems. I certainly stand ready, as a Senator from California who has much at stake on both of these bills that my colleague referred to.”