Political Quotes

“Mr. President, following leader remarks, the Senate will resume consideration of the Wall Street reform bill. There will be no rollcall votes today or on Monday or on next Friday. The following Monday, we will take a look at that. That is now scheduled as a no-vote day. We may not be able to do that. Other things have come up, not the least of which is a conversation with Secretary Gates yesterday about the supplemental war funding bill. We are going to do our utmost to finish the bill we are on now next week. We have today and all day Monday for people to work on amendments, and we would hope we can make some progress in that regard. Yesterday, there were a few difficult spots, but late in the evening we were able to get the Senate back on track. We had some important legislation done last night. I repeat what I said last night: There doesn't need to be long periods of time for debating most of these issues. We have all studied them. This bill has been in the public eye for a long time. Sherrod Brown had a controversial, important amendment. I supported that amendment. But he spoke for 5 minutes. The opposition spoke for 5 minutes. Everyone understood what they were doing. It was a good vote. I use that as an example. We can move through this stuff much more rapidly. We want to make sure Senators have opportunities to offer amendments. As I said yesterday, there are lots of amendments. A lot of them are in the same area. We need to focus on these.…”