Political Quotes

“Mr. President, this morning we are awaiting the opportunity to do a unanimous consent request that would then give us the road ahead to complete the FAA reauthorization bill on Monday. We have spent 5 days on the floor of the Senate, entertained a fairly large number of amendments and had votes on amendments. We have one large group of amendments that has been cleared by both sides. We will include that in the unanimous consent request as well. We made a lot of progress last night in reaching some understandings about a couple of the complicated and controversial issues. It appears now, when we get the unanimous consent request, which I think we have agreed to--we are just getting it prepared--we will be able to get that done this morning. That will give us the road forward, and we will complete this bill Monday evening. This is a very big achievement because the FAA reauthorization bill has been extended 11 times rather than completed and reauthorized.…”