Political Quotes

“I have been talking now with Senator McCain. This is what our plan is for tonight and for the morning. In the morning, we would hope we would be able--we would first hope to address the Kyl amendment. We would hope to take up and dispose of the Kyl amendment first thing in the morning. We would then expect to move to Senator Ayotte's amendment, to which there may or may not be a second-degree or a side-by-side amendment offered. After that matter is disposed of, we would expect then to move to a Hagan amendment. And, in between, it is our intent to offer cleared amendments. I will let Senator McCain join me on this. But these are amendments which have been cleared. People will have a chance overnight to look at them and see if there is any reason that they want rollcall votes or voice votes on these. If there are, we expect they are going to have to come down, object, and vote on those matters. But our staff works hard. We work with the committees of jurisdiction, we work with people we believe have any interest in these amendments. We have perhaps 50 or 100 amendments which we are looking at. We want to accommodate Senators. We also want to accommodate potential opponents. We have done our best to do both, sponsors and opponents. But that is our plan for tonight and for tomorrow morning.…”