Political Quotes

“there will be no votes today and likely not tomorrow. We are waiting for President Bush and/or President-elect Obama as to what, if anything, they are going to do on TARP, and that is occurring as we speak. We are going to have a Democratic caucus at 2:45. I ask Democratic Senators to attend. That will be in the LBJ Room, S-207. We are going to work with Senator Coburn to see if we have to be in all night. He has indicated--to staff, at least--that may not be the case, so we will work out a convenient time tomorrow. If Senator Coburn or others demand a simple majority vote, we can do that. We will work out a convenient time for everyone. That likely will occur tomorrow, but we hope people will not require that vote to take place. We will keep everyone advised as we proceed through the next 24 hours. I appreciate everyone's cooperation. I am sorry about the Sunday schedule. We have a lot to do. We already are looking to moving toward the next matter, which is Lilly Ledbetter. We have SCHIP, and then, of course, we move to the big one, and that is the economic recovery package. We look forward to having all the input the Democrats and Republicans have asked. Senator Inouye has been working on the appropriations part. There will be input from the committee and others. Senator Baucus has been working, as have other committee chairs, with the committees. I think we are in decent shape now to move forward on other things.”