Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, on Monday, the House will meet at 12 p.m. for legislative business. Members are advised that votes are expected as early as 2 p.m. I want to repeat that. We are going in at 12 p.m. Votes can be as early as 2 p.m. This is unusual for the first day of the week. I have advised and urged Members to stay here this weekend--most of them I have talked to are--because, clearly, we are trying to get two critical pieces of legislation done, which we will speak to, I think, in a little bit. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the House will meet at 10 a.m. for morning- hour debate and 12 p.m. for legislative business. On Thursday, the House will meet at 9 a.m. for legislative business. I advise Members that we still have to pass an omnibus and we have to pass a COVID-19 relief bill, and we will not adjourn the Congress until such time as we can accomplish those two objectives. I was hopeful that we would accomplish those objectives by next Thursday. Unfortunately, things are not moving as rapidly as I think they ought to--I would like them to, but as they ought to be moving--so that Members need to be advised that they need to keep their schedules very, very flexible until such time as we pass both of those pieces of legislation. We will, in addition, consider several bills under suspension of the rules. The complete list of suspensions will be announced by the close of business today. I will say something further on suspensions.…”