Political Quotes

“I am pleased to hear the leader say he would be most willing to allow the minority to offer five relevant, germane amendments to the cyber security legislation. Literally within the last 30 minutes we have had on the floor both the leader saying this, and I have heard him saying it before, that a limited number of relevant amendments--Senator McCain came to the floor, who, as you know, has not been anxious to support the bipartisan legislation developed by Senators Lieberman and Collins and others--but we have had one of the antagonists to that legislation and the majority leader both saying that five relevant and germane amendments would be allowed for the minority to offer, so we could at least take up the bill, debate the bill. At the end of the day, we still need 60 votes to get the bill off the floor. I have heard so many of my colleagues say it is not a matter of if but it is when, and I don't want us to leave and go home for Thanksgiving with this hanging, if we could actually do something relevant.”