Political Quotes

“Madam President, we are almost at the end. This is the last amendment. Unfortunately, I rise to ask my colleagues to vote against the amendment of not only my colleague but a member of the Intelligence Committee. This is a deal-killer. I will be very honest. This kills the deal. One of the thresholds that we had to reach was the balance to have one portal that the information goes through. This creates a new portal. The White House is not in favor of it. Downtown is not in favor of it because they understand what it does. We are this close right now to a voluntary information sharing bill. I can assure you that this is the first step. We have a ways to go. But if you want to stop it dead in its tracks, support this amendment. If, in fact, you want to get this across the goal line, then I would ask you to defeat the Cotton amendment and let us move to passage of this bill. Let us go to conference with the House. I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment, as modified.”