Political Quotes

“I want the record to reflect how much I appreciate the hard work of the Senator from North Carolina, Senator Hagan, working on this bipartisan bill. She did it with the ranking member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Senator Murkowski, and they have done good work coming up with this bill. But the Senator from Alaska spoke this morning about her desire for consideration of amendments. Typical, typical, typical of the last 6 years here. This bill has 26 Republican cosponsors. This bill was brought up 2 years ago. They have worked hard to improve the bill since then, and you would think with 26 Republican cosponsors to this bill we could move forward on it. But, as usual, they come down here and they say, well, a good bill, but we want to have a bunch of amendments. I am all for consideration of amendments on this bill. We all are. But the Republicans can't agree on what amendments they want. I just met with a number of people earlier today about this and explained to them how we used to do things. There wasn't on virtually every piece of legislation a necessity to get cloture on a bill and now even to get on a bill we need cloture, as we find on the bill we just finished some procedural work on, the sportsmen's bill. It affects millions and millions of Americans, but they want amendments. They want amendments because they want to kill the bill as they have tried to kill everything in the last 6 years. So I repeat, I am all for consideration of amendments.…”