Political Quotes

“Madam President, I want to thank my friend and colleague from Kansas for the speech that he just gave. I would like to associate myself with every single word. Madam President, last Thursday, I came to the floor to explain to the pages who were on duty then--I think they are different now--and to a few people in the Gallery what was about to happen. Then I told them what was about to happen was that a lot of people were going to file a lot of amendments. There were going to be some people who wouldn't do time agreements. And then we would come to the floor, and we would hem and haw about how either Leader Schumer, the majority leader, or Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, somehow blocked them. Well, that is fiction. I am not a fortuneteller. I have seen this play before. And what played out over this weekend is exactly what happened in the past, where people are making objections without any good-faith offer to negotiate time, et cetera. So what happens? Great amendments, like those that are being offered by Senator Lee, are likely not going to get a vote. Great amendments by Tom Cotton, Rick Scott, and other Members are likely not going to get a vote. I hope, maybe, that changes, but unless we decide to negotiate in good faith--and I don't know why anybody thinks that they will. So it is disappointing, but it is not surprising, and that is exactly what I was thinking on Thursday. And, now, here we are on Monday. I have one other thing.…”