Political Quotes

“I will take 2 minutes to review the bidding and give our colleagues a status report on the election reform bill-- where we are, what we have accomplished, and what we can look forward to during the remainder of the day. This could be a very historic day if we can finish work on this bill today. My hope is we can. We still have a little less than two dozen amendments that I know of. A couple of them will require some debate. There are many I think can be resolved without much debate, and many of them could actually be accepted if we can work out some language. After three full days of debate on the bill, over a week ago on Thursday and Friday and then yesterday, we have disposed of 22 amendments. To give my colleagues an idea of the bipartisan nature of this measure, we have adopted a total of 16 amendments by voice vote--8 by the majority, 8 by the minority--to indicate the balance we have been able to achieve so far. We will be working through the remainder of these amendments today, and my hope is we can finish this bill this evening or by tomorrow-- hopefully this evening.”