Political Quotes

“Reserving the right to object, Mr. President, everyone should understand, on Thursday, on this side we agreed to a vote on the President's jobs bill. There have been a number of things that have occurred since then. We seek today, with this motion, to proceed to get to the jobs bill-- a good jobs bill. We seek to begin a legislative process. Senators from my side and Senators from the other side--the Republican side--have said they want to be able to get a bill where they can offer ideas to create jobs. I think that is commendable. That is what we seek to do to get on this bill. I ask my colleague, the Republican leader, if he might modify his request to allow the Senate to proceed to the bill so we might begin consideration of an amendment to the bill. I also say, in response to modification, I have said to my friends on the Republican side of the aisle and on the Democratic side, as I said last Thursday, the President's original package we have talked about for some time. If people want to vote on that, they can vote on that. I think it would be to everyone's best interest to move to proceed to this so we can make this legislation even better than it now is. I ask for that modification. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Republican leader so modify his request? Mr. McCONNELL. I have been trying for a over a week to get a vote on the President's so-called jobs proposal, which he has been asking us to give him repeatedly.…”