Political Quotes

“The agreement is that I have made a number of different offers and have made other suggestions. In direct answer to the Senator's question, we have to fill the tree, of course. We have to work through the amendments. I tried to come up with some agreement on amendments and time and what some of the amendments would be. That is how we always do things here. I will also say this: I have had kind of a hard thing to work through because all I have worked on in the last few weeks has been with the overhanging problem of not--42 Republicans, in a letter, have said: You are not going to do anything legislatively. Mr. President, they have proved that they are not allowing us to do anything legislatively. Certainly, this is a legislative matter. I think I have been as clear as I can be. I, of course, would be willing to work on the amendment process with my friend. But as far as agreeing to something right now, I cannot do that.”