Political Quotes

“I am disappointed but not surprised. I do hope that the remarks of the Senator from Texas that there will be time and opportunity for amendments are real, because every published report I have seen suggests this will be brought up next Thursday on the verge of everybody trying to go on recess. My advocacy or my unanimous consent request wasn't to bring a bill to the floor that isn't already known. That bill has been out there for some time. It is to create the process to debate and begin to amend the bill--the bill passed by the House of Representatives that has been out there for some time now. So I wasn't offering a bill of my own vision. It was to create the process. Of course, I respect the importance of the present appropriations bill that we are discussing, but the urgency of the time limit as it relates to the default that can take place in July is not as pressing on that appropriations bill as it is for the people of Puerto Rico. So I think there can be a reasonable opportunity to move to PROMESA--a false promise, from my view--and a real opportunity to have a debate on it, and more than debate, amendments--amendments to make it better. So I hope that is going to happen. But I want to signal now that if we are jammed on Thursday and it is an up-or-down vote--take it or leave it--that I have every intention of doing whatever I can procedurally to make sure we have amendments on this.…”