Political Quotes

“Madam President, I wish to take about 2 minutes--and I know Senator Brown is here to speak--to explain what just happened because a normal person would never follow this, in my opinion. That is just me speaking. Let me tell my colleagues what we did. Happily, we are moving forward with the first votes on amendments to the WRDA bill--the water resources bill--tomorrow. I have to thank so much Majority Leader Reid because he worked very hard on making sure we could figure out a way to move these votes forward. Senator Vitter and I both wanted to see this happen, and we are very pleased. So what will happen is we will first have a vote on an amendment by Senator Coburn dealing with a study about ammunition. Upon disposition of that amendment, we will move to another Coburn amendment that deals with people being able to carry guns on Corps of Engineers land that has levees and dams on it and so on. We will have debate and a vote on that. Finally, we will have a vote on the Whitehouse amendment which deals with an oceans trust fund. So those three votes will be in order, and following that we believe the Boxer-Vitter amendment will be pending. I wish to thank everybody for their cooperation in moving forward. I don't understand why and how we would have gun amendments on a water infrastructure bill, but that is just me. This is about water infrastructure. It is about flood control. It is about making sure our ports are deepened so that commerce can flow in and out.…”