Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we have been working through this bill. I congratulate our manager, Senator Rockefeller, who is one of the most experienced people in the Senate and is a good manager. He has worked well with Senator Hutchison, comanager of the bill. We have made significant progress. We have a few amendments on which we are trying to work a way to the end of this. I hope we can work out an agreement to complete this legislation maybe as early as tomorrow morning sometime. If we can't, the first cloture vote is tomorrow, and we will see what happens after that. Everyone should understand. It is Wednesday. Tomorrow is Thursday. I know a lot of people have arrangements because we have a home work period the following week. We want to go home, if at all possible, late tomorrow night or early Friday morning, but we can't do that if there is work left to be done on this bill. I hope we can work something out so we can finish tomorrow. It would certainly be doable. We know what we have left. Work on the different issues has been extremely difficult and time-consuming, but we have settled most everything on the Senate floor, as we are supposed to do. There will be no more rollcall votes tonight. We hope we can move forward to complete work on this most important piece of legislation tomorrow. This legislation is extremely important for our country. Let's keep in mind, this deals with people. Almost 300,000 jobs will be created or saved with this legislation.…”