Political Quotes

“I say this to my colleagues or their staffs watching. We have spent considerable time on this bill. Yesterday was a little disjointed because of the funeral of Gaylord Nelson and the space shuttle blastoff that did not occur. We had a number of Senators who had gone to both of those events. Under the order now before the Senate, the leader and I have the ability to offer amendments. I have one Senator who has come to me, and I think the amendment he has asked that I offer is appropriate, and I will do that. I will confer with Senator Judd Gregg before I offer that amendment. All good things need to come to an end, and we need to stop any amendments we now have with the dozen pending now. I prevailed upon the majority leader not to file cloture yesterday or Tuesday. I think that is appropriate. For Members who have amendments to offer, if they have something they believe is extremely important, they can come to me, and I will make every consideration I can. It is time we finish this bill. I don't know if we can finish it tonight. I hope we can. The leader said we will stay in tonight and work through as long as we need to. It is my understanding, regardless of what we do tonight, that we are going to try to move to another bill tomorrow, which is fine with me.…”