Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I ask permission to engage in a dialogue with my friend from Arizona. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Mr. McCAIN. I say to my friend from Illinois that there is no further objection. The Senator from Oklahoma and I have reviewed the bill and yesterday we discussed its length and our obligations. I promise to my friend from Illinois that we will not rehash that discussion we had. We have no objection whatsoever to taking up amendments right now and moving forward with that. I hope that is perfectly clear to all Members. Very frankly, I am eager to move forward. I will mention to my friend from Illinois that I appreciate the new responsibilities he has. I appreciate the responsibilities he has addressing, as he just said, the largest single part of our appropriations bill which is in the Defense authorization. During the intervening time we had requested, I came up with, for example, $65 million for Pacific coast salmon restorations for States, which includes Nevada. We are going to restore salmon restoration in the State of Nevada? Also listed here is the Department of Defense to overpay contracts by an additional 5 percent--totaling $15 million--for Native Hawaiian- owned companies. I would be glad to include this long list for the Record.…”