Political Quotes

“following leader remarks, the Senate will resume consideration of H.R. 933, the continuing appropriations legislation. The Senate will recess from 12:30 p.m. until 2:15 p.m. today for our weekly caucus meetings. We are going to continue to work to see if we can get these amendments in order. We wanted to vote on them last night, but we hope to complete the CR very quickly. I have not had an opportunity yet to speak to the Republican leader this morning, but very shortly I am going to move to begin work on the budget. Senator Sessions and Senator Murray are anxious to move forward on that. I had a long conversation with Senator Sessions last night--and I speak to Senator Murray quite often--and there is no reason that 30 hours postcloture should be wasted. A Senator who doesn't like what went on before can have 1 hour, but we should not waste our time as we have done so often by killing 30 hours. We should start the budget. If people decide they are going to use the 30 hours and then another 30 hours--we have to have cloture not only on the substitute but on the bill itself, it is 60 hours--that would mean we would start on the budget sometime Thursday morning. We are going to do it. The 60 hours will be eaten up sometime Thursday morning. I hope we don't have to waste that time, but we are going to finish the budget before we leave here. We have had conversations on both sides of the aisle about how we need a budget.…”