Political Quotes

“I am saying quite the opposite, if the Senator would yield. Quite the opposite. It is worth getting an estimate. It is worth getting an honest estimate. And there is no way that in a few minutes, or in a few hours--indeed in a few days, if you listen to the Congressional Budget Office--that you can get an estimate of the cost of a mandate on 87,000 jurisdictions. Of course we have points of order in the Budget Act. They have to do with levels of Federal spending of the Federal Government. What is new here is that a new point of order is going to be created, unless you have an estimate in a specific dollar amount of the cost. It could be years away--on 87,000 State and local units of government. That is very new. Is it worth getting? Of course it is worth getting, if you can. But you say you can bring an amendment to the floor even without an estimate. The way I read the bill: "It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider"--and then the words are "any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report." It is not in order for the Senate to consider those.”