Political Quotes

“I want to make sure the record is very clear what the vote will be on Tuesday morning. Before the day is out, I am going to file cloture on a work product. It is a bill that has the approval of Barbara Boxer, a progressive Senator from California, and Jim Inhofe, a conservative Senator from Oklahoma. We have now added to that something that came out of the Finance Committee, something that came out of the Banking Committee, and something that came out of the Commerce Committee. All these measures have been relatively without any challenge. I can't understand why people wouldn't approve this. And what we added to this is 37 approved amendments. The staffs, with their respective Senators, have been working for days to come up with agreement on amendments that have been filed but not offered, and these amendments have been approved by the respective chair and ranking members of the committees, 37 of them. So we will be voting on Tuesday on that product--all of it bipartisan, all of it noncontroversial--so that we can complete work on this bill. If we did nothing else, nothing else on this highway bill, then what we are going to vote cloture on, on Tuesday, would be really a good, strong legislative day for this body. Then we could have conference with the House. The House has already announced they can't do their senseless piece of legislation.…”