Political Quotes

“Let me say to my colleague, we have been on this bill now for 3 or 4 weeks. We have considered almost 50 amendments. I have a list of about 49 amendments I sent to the minority several days ago, including amendments offered by Democrats, Republicans, some of them bipartisan amendments, that I would be more than willing to accept. I know the minority is looking at them, and they may accept some and reject others. There is that group of amendments. We have a list of about 20 different amendments here, some of which are, like my friend's from North Dakota, controversial amendments that I would like the opportunity to debate and bring up. The difficulty of managing from this seat is that, obviously, once consent is given for an amendment to be pending, it takes consent then to lay it aside and move forward. Then we turn over to any one Member of this Chamber the ability to veto virtually all other amendments because it takes unanimous consent by this Chamber to agree to proceed to something else. So what it does is allow one Senator to tie up----”