Political Quotes

“we would yield back our time and use leader time for a colloquy between the two of us. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, we have done a lot of sparring back and forth over the last week trying to get a vote on the President's so- called jobs proposal, and now we have before us cloture on the motion to proceed to the second version of the President's so-called jobs proposal. It strikes me it would be appropriate to try one more time to see if we could get a vote on the actual proposal. So I have indicated to my good friend the majority leader that I am going to ask unanimous consent that we vote on both the original President Obama jobs proposal and the revised Obama jobs proposal upon which we currently have pending cloture on the motion to proceed. It strikes me this would expedite the process. The President has been out on the campaign trail asking us to vote on his proposal and vote on it now without change. If that is a vote our friends on the other side do not want to have, we would be happy to have a vote on the President's proposal as changed, which I gather he also supports. So bearing that in mind, I now ask unanimous consent that the cloture vote on the motion to proceed to S.…”