Political Quotes

“we have 350 amendments which have been filed on this bill. I know every person who has filed an amendment feels entitled to offer that amendment. I just think we are not in a position to deal with this for all the reasons we have talked about here for several months. We are not seriously legislating anymore. We can pass the blame to anyone we want, but we have tried all kinds of things. How about so many amendments on each side? We have done that before. It is not anything unique. We have done that lots of times in the past. It doesn't work. How about 13 amendments? No. It won't work because we want more amendments after that. So I understand, and I am not denigrating anyone's intent. I know the intentions are good. The record reflects how I feel about this bill. I am sorry we are at the point we are. Couldn't we at least have everybody vote on this amendment which people have spent days of their lives working on? It doesn't matter how we feel about what has been done, but there has been tremendously important work done on the sexual assault issue, and we should at least have the opportunity, with the work that has been put into this, to have a vote. No one is disenfranchised by doing that--or move to try to figure something else out after that. But, gee whiz, couldn't we do that? Otherwise, we will walk away not having done anything on this. I think that is just so unfair to the people who worked on this.…”