Political Quotes

“--the problem we have is, the Senator from Connecticut wants to have his amendment heard prior to cloture. The problem is, there has not been a motion for cloture filed yet. If the cloture motion is filed tonight, then under the rules, an hour after we come in on Thursday, cloture would be voted on. That being the case, under the proposed unanimous consent agreement we have here, there is going to be a lot of hours used up prior to Thursday morning at 9 or 10, whenever we come in here. I think there are a lot of people who want to offer amendments, but unless they are germane amendments, there would be no guarantee that there would be a vote on them, other than the two here. We have had assurances that the Levin and the Kerry amendment, even though there would be a problem with cloture, they would allow a vote on that. I think realistically, it would be hard for anyone to guarantee a vote prior to cloture to the Senator from Connecticut.”