Political Quotes

“I invite my colleagues, who may be engaged in other activities in their respective offices, if nothing particularly important is happening, and if they have a proposal they would like to have heard on on this bill, to come on over. We are open for business on amendments. We will consider them on either side. I do not know of many we have, but there may be some. I have talked to some colleagues who have some questions about the bill. If they do have questions, I invite them to come to the Chamber, and I will try to address them in colloquies to either alleviate their concerns--or heighten them, I suppose, depending upon my answer to their question. We would like to get this bill done. I know there are other matters. The leader, I know, wants to bring up the energy bill. I think that is the next item on the agenda. Given the amount of work we have put into election reform--and, again, I thank immensely my colleagues from Kentucky, Senator McConnell; Missouri, Senator Bond; New York, Senator Schumer; New Jersey, Senator Torricelli; Trent Lott, and Tom Daschle, the majority leader. A lot of work and a tremendous amount of effort has gone into this effort over many hours. Obviously, we are not there yet. We still have to go to a conference with the House. Our fervent hope is to get this done as soon as we can.”