Political Quotes

“Reserving the right to object, as I understand this further modification, it would say let's take a bill that is meaningful on an important global issue, something--an important human rights issue that everyone here supports, that we can pass right now, today, and send it to the President and he can sign it tonight or tomorrow morning and it becomes law because everyone supports it, using this process we are using here, and in addition to that, set up votes on two nominees and an Assistant Secretary, at a time when speech after speech out here has been about how we are not getting to these nominees and Assistant Secretaries--so we can do all that but only if we add to it something that has bipartisan opposition; that, no matter what, at least 50 people here are against. It cannot pass unanimously, and even if it could and it did pass, we would have to send it back over to the House, not to the President, and the House isn't even in session until January 10. That doesn't sound like a good arrangement to me, and it is something that I would have to object to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. Is there objection to the original request?”