Political Quotes

“Mr. President, following leader remarks, there will be a period for the transaction of morning business for 1 hour. The time will be controlled by the two leaders or their designees. Senator Sanders is going to control 15 minutes of the majority time. We have a half hour. So he will have 15 minutes of that time. Following morning business, the Senate will resume consideration of H.J. Res. 45, the debt limit legislation, and proceed to a series of votes in relation to the following items: Brownback amendment; Sessions/McCaskill amendment; Reid amendment; Baucus for Reid amendment; and passage of H.J. Res. 45. Following those votes, there will be 1 hour of debate prior to a cloture vote on the nomination of Ben Bernanke to be Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. We are going to try to see if we can work with both Democrats and Republicans to have more time to debate prior to a vote on Ben Bernanke. If we can work that out, we will have an extended period of time, whatever Senators want, prior to Mr. Bernanke, and then we would have cloture and perhaps final passage. We don't have that worked out. At least the order before the Senate is that following the series of five votes, there will be an hour of debate prior to a cloture vote on Ben Bernanke. Mr. President, I see the distinguished Judiciary chairman here. We have a half hour of time, and I will be happy to give to my friend whatever time he desires. How much time does my friend need?”