Political Quotes

“We are going to have a caucus Monday at 6 o'clock in the Old Senate Chamber. We are going to vote at 5:30. I would hope with something this important we will have attendance. I know my caucus will be there. If nothing is resolved there, which is the way things have been going today, likely it will not be, so we will have a vote sometime early Tuesday morning on these nominations. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, the majority leader always reminds me he can have the last word. I am sure he can have the last word again. Speaking for Senator Vitter, he did ask for a lot of information from the new prospective Administrator of the EPA--so did Senator Boxer. She asked for 70,000 pages herself. But he was satisfied with the responses he got. This is how the process ought to work. This is how it has worked for decades. You are trying to get answer to questions. You are trying to engage in some kind of prediction as to how somebody might operate in the future. What the majority leader has been saying all along is he wants the confirmation process to be speedy and for the minority to sit down and shut up. He believes that advise and consent means sit down and shut up; confirm these nominees when I tell you to. The reason he is having to take a lot of heat over this is because he has broken his word to the Senate, given last January, that we had resolved the rules issue for this Congress.…”