Political Quotes

“I would say to my friend and friends on the other side of the aisle, we will continue to work. We have now a tentative arrangement, starting arrangement. This is not the end, we know that. But we will figure out a way that people can offer amendments. I will be happy to consider--I do not like language like this, but that is what we use around here, ``take down the tree.'' That kind of turns into a buzzword for--it is kind of like ``earmarks'' or something like it is real bad. So I would be happy, at this stage, to accept the proposal that these two lists the staff has, these be the entire universe of the amendments that we will work on, on this bill. We will come back at a subsequent time to figure out a way to take down the tree and work our way through these. I think it is fair. I would say this to my friend, that these amendments would be subject to relevant second-degree amendments. I accept that.”