Political Quotes

“I rise to ask all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to vote for cloture on the Senate bill. I want to say to my colleagues, we have come very far on this bill, and as of Thursday we had 126 amendments. I love the Senate. We love to talk, and we love to amend. Everyone has, in many instances, outstanding ideas to improve the bill. We are now at the point where we have dueling amendments. We have matters of policy to discuss, but we are now at the point where the bill must come to a close, and that is why we proposed this limited number of amendments. Some of my colleagues have amendments on the issue related to flexibility. If I could ask the Senator from Kansas a question, it is not that we dispute what the Air Force is going to face or what our poultry farmers are going to face. Both sides of the aisle--whether it is Blunt of Missouri, Isakson of Georgia, Pryor or Boozman of Arkansas, or Mikulski and Cardin of Maryland, chicken is the mainstay of our eastern shore. We are all facing this. In my original underlying bill, I had a 1-percent transfer authority subject to the approval of Congress that would have solved all of these problems. It was the other Chamber--and even those on the other side of the aisle--that insisted I remove that from this bill. For all of those who wanted flexibility, I wanted to fix it. We could not fix it. Believe me, I wanted to fix it. Each and every one of these individual amendments has merit in and of itself.…”