Political Quotes

“we have a piece of legislation that passed last night in the House of Representatives. I received a call last night, I guess around 9:30 or 10 o'clock, from both the majority leader and the Speaker that the so-called DREAM Act had passed in the House. That changes things over here. It changes things because we had been toiling on this for a long time, and now that it has passed the House, the appropriate way to proceed would be to have a vote on that matter, because if we are able to pass it, it goes directly to the President. Having said that, I think it would be futile for us to have a vote on a motion to invoke cloture on a bill we know will not matter. So what we will do is, I am going to ask consent to vitiate the vote that is scheduled for 11 o'clock on the DREAM Act, and to alert everyone, we have not given up on the DREAM Act. Quite the opposite. It having passed the House gives us more energy to move forward on this most important piece of legislation. The stories that relate to this DREAM Act are compelling to me, of these young men and women who want to be able to complete their education, want to be able to go into the military and serve their country and, in the process, they are not guaranteed citizenship, they are guaranteed that they will not be arrested or deported. They will be given a green card to prove that they are eligible for citizenship. So we are going to proceed and do everything we can to pass what the House did.”