Political Quotes

“Ladies and gentlemen, I know the consternation that exists with respect to our schedule and when we are going to leave. I want to announce what I believe to be the balance of the schedule tonight. I would hope that it would include, but cannot assert at this point in time because I don't know--and I don't believe it's the case--that 9/11 will be ready for us. They are still talking about it in the Senate. I just talked to Senator Reid. We will go to a suspension bill, the child sex trafficking bill. We will then go to the rule for the continuing resolution. We will then do the continuing resolution. That would, unless we get 9/11, conclude the business for today. It is, as Senator Reid indicates to me, a high likelihood that they will complete 9/11 sometime tomorrow. Now 'sometime tomorrow' is, he says, no later than 4, as early as 2. Ladies and gentlemen, I know we would all like to say that, well, let's go home. As you know, the 9/11 bill does, in fact, impact literally tens of thousands of people who participated subsequent to 9/11 in going into that building and initially looking for those who might still be surviving, and to look for those who did not survive and bring them out. So this is not a matter that does not have serious consequences for people who volunteered and, as a result of the atmosphere which confronted them as they went in, they became ill. So I think all of us understand the seriousness of this bill and the consequences of not doing it.”