Political Quotes

“Mr. President, following any leader remarks, the Senate will resume consideration of the House message to accompany H.R. 4213, which is a bill to extend a number of expiring provisions, some of the tax issues we have to deal with every year, and some other good things to create jobs. There are going to be rollcall votes throughout the day. We have four amendments that are pending. The chairman and I spoke last night. We believe we need to clear some of these amendments out of the way before we start piling on more amendments. We really need Members to come forward. If they have amendments, talk with the managers of the bill. We need to move forward on this legislation. We cannot sit here, as we did yesterday, and not do a lot. Tomorrow, as everyone knows, we are going to spend a lot of time on the Murkowski resolution. That could take as many as 7 hours of floor time. We need to move forward. We are out of session on Friday and Monday, really the only two nonvote days we have this entire work period. Primary Night Mr. President, it was primary night last night. I expressed in many different ways--I was up early this morning with my supporters in Nevada, telling them I appreciate their help. I congratulated my Republican opponent in the general election, Sharron Angle, on the campaign she ran. She actually came from nowhere in a 13-person field in the Republican primary to win this election. I extended my appreciation to her in that regard. Baseball Mr.…”