Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we are going to have one more vote today on a circuit judge. It is my understanding the district judge will go by voice. Mr. President, tomorrow, we are going--first of all, tonight, anyone who wants to work on the START treaty, the managers of the bill, Senator Kerry and Senator Lugar, have said they are here as long as people want to work on it. We are going to come in at 10 in the morning. We will work from 10 until 2 on the START treaty, and then a number of Senators want to have a closed session. We will do that in the Old Senate Chamber. The Chamber has already been cleared by the security folks, so we will start that at 2 o'clock and go as long as necessary. Then we will come back tomorrow evening and continue working on the START treaty. We have very few things left to do. The Republican leader and I and our staffs have worked throughout the morning trying to come up with something on the CR. We are very close to being able to get that done, but it is not done. So we have the CR to do. The short-term runs out on Tuesday, so we have to have things done by then. We have this START treaty, and then, of course, we have the 9/11 health bill and the motion to reconsider. Senator Levin has been working on some other things, namely defense, on an agreement to get it done. ____________________”