Political Quotes

“I think there is tremendous incentive. First of all, they could have their amendment heard--their relevant amendment. And there is nothing to stop us from having the managers of the bill sit down and work out a procedure where they can come up with 10 relevant amendments-- amendments 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10--to this bill. Do one, do the other, and we can try to work out time agreements on these matters. So there is tremendous incentive, because I am convinced there are people on both sides of the aisle who have problems with this bill. Some do not like the bill and they want to change it; others want to improve the bill. They want to do that in good faith. So the incentive would be, as I have said to my dear friend, the Senator from Kentucky, to have their amendment and others heard. There is nothing to prevent the manager of the bill from coming up with a series--I would even go as far as to say my distinguished friend, the Republican leader, if he wants to have the final say with me, if the managers do a good job, I would be happy to include him in the mix. But there is a lot of incentive. We could, in the next couple of days, work out a procedure to get rid of a lot of amendments that are relevant to this bill and would either improve the bill in the mind of some people or make it a little worse, which is the goal some people have.”