Trent Lott: “This amendment would be voted on, if a vote is required, at 10:30 tomorrow morning in the stacked sequence.”

I have been watching the Congress pretty closely now for 35 years as a Member of the House and the Senate, and I have been involved in end of sessions 19 times in the Senate, but I must say, it is about as big a mess as I have ever seen…

I was accused of being a compromiser or a deal-maker. I didn't know those were dirty words.

let me say again to the Senator from South Carolina who just left the Chamber, I appreciate the way he has approached this. He did not come in and condemn it; he looked at it. He had some ideas, and several of them have been accepted. I…

We are going to start doing things a little differently. We are going to go back and do some of the things that worked.