Political Quotes

“I said I would talk about what we are doing here today. You talk about ``Groundhog Day.'' This is groundhog year. The Republicans in the Senate refuse to allow anything to take place. Prior to our noon break yesterday--every Tuesday Republicans meet and Democrats meet--one of the senior Republicans came to me and said: Harry, are you going to have amendments? I said: Of course we are going to have amendments. We have talked about amendments on the veterans bill. I have had Republicans come to me and say: Let's try relevant amendments. So I said: Fine. Come up with some. They said: How many? I said: I don't care. The first amendment is what they have been doing all along. They offer an amendment that has nothing to do with this bill, the veterans bill. It is partisanship at its best. It is obstruction at its best. We got cloture on this bill. Virtually everybody voted to allow us to start debate on this bill. But that is only a subterfuge. The Republicans obviously have no intent of doing anything for the veterans as outlined in this bill. The chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee has worked for months coming up with a bill that is good--a bipartisan proposal. Republican proposals are in this bill. One of the Republican Senators here came and talked for some length yesterday about ways he would like to improve the bill. Offer amendments. He is not going to be allowed to do that.…”