Political Quotes

“Madam President, pretty soon we are going to go back to the Water Resources Development Act, otherwise known as the WRDA bill. I will comment on that soon. We are making terrific progress. I hope Senators who may hear my voice would understand we would prefer to deal with a number of amendments rather than vote cloture. We have been working with almost--I can't tell you--20 different Senators to try to accommodate them, to either take their amendments, if they are noncontroversial, by voice or to make sure we can vote on their amendments or have side-by-sides. The bottom line is it is time now--it is past time--that Senators decide if they want to move this bill forward in an open way with regular order or if they want to avoid these very important amendments that we could vote on and go straight to cloture. I hope we can continue to work through the morning. ____________________”