Political Quotes

“Madam President, I wish Senators to know that we will start voting here in 9 or 10 minutes, and these will be 10-minute votes. The first vote will be on the amendment offered by the Senator from Kentucky, Mr. Paul, followed by Senator McCain's amendment, Senator Sanders' amendment, Senator Durbin's amendment, and then final passage. By an earlier consent, all of those votes will be 10-minute votes. I wanted to make sure that people knew what the lay of the land was here. We are rapidly approaching the final passage of this bill. We have had great cooperation from all Senators on both sides in moving this legislation forward here on the floor. We have had good debates. They have not been drawn out endlessly, but we have had good debates and a good airing of the amendments on the bill. I thank all Senators for that, and hopefully we can move rapidly to wrap up this bill and move on. This bill is the product of 18 months of very hard work by Senator Enzi and all of the Senators on our committee on both sides of the aisle. It is a true compromise and bipartisan bill. As I mentioned earlier, it has the support of a broad spectrum of stakeholders, from the pharmaceutical companies to pharmacists to consumer organizations, across the broad spectrum who support this bill, and it is necessary that we get it done.…”