Political Quotes

“I have an announcement. I realize everyone is tired, anxious, and some are a little concerned about everything. I have had, especially late last night and early this morning, conversations with Republicans and Democrats as to what we should do this weekend. The next set of votes will come shortly before noon today. Then we will have another set of votes this afternoon. Absent consent, the Senate will vote late Saturday, about 10:30 or thereabouts, on confirmation of Jeh Johnson to be the Secretary of Homeland Security. The Senate has already received a budget bill from the House. We expect momentarily to receive the Defense bill from the House. I wish to have the Senate process these important bills as quickly possible. I plan to move to proceed on these bills as soon as we can. That would be as soon as we handle the pending nominations that are now before this body. Thereafter, there are certain things we need to do before Christmas break. We need to do those two important bills, the budget and defense. We have to do the Chair of the Federal Reserve system. There is an Under Secretary of State that is very urgent, according to John Kerry. We have a Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, Under Secretary of Department of Interior, the head of the Internal Revenue Service, and the remaining judge on the DC Circuit.…”