Political Quotes

“the bill that was, and is, most important to the intelligence community and to the Pentagon was just killed. I am speaking of the cyber security bill. I have had a number of people come to me during the day and say: Are you going to allow relevant amendments on this? I said: Sure. They said: How about five? I said: Fine. But whatever we do on this bill, it is not enough for the Chamber of Commerce. It is not enough. So everyone should understand, cyber security is dead for this Congress. What an unfortunate thing. But that is the way it is. I filed cloture on the Sportsmen's bill yesterday. Unless we can agree to a limited number of amendments, we will have a cloture vote on the bill early tomorrow morning, probably around 9 o'clock. If we get cloture, there will be a potential 30 hours of debate under the rules, as we all know too well. I have been told someone on the other side also plans to make a Budget Act point of order against the Sportsmen's bill. We have Members representing the States of New York and New Jersey who are going to be in their States tomorrow because of the tremendous damage caused by Sandy, but they will be back here tomorrow evening and we will have a vote in the morning on cloture on the Sportsmen's bill, and then we could have votes later tomorrow or on Friday. On DOD authorization--Senator Levin is here, Senator McCain was here earlier. I have had conversations with Senator Levin.…”