Political Quotes

“Following leader remarks, the Senate will be in a period of morning business for 1 hour. The majority will control the first half and the Republicans the final half. Following morning business, the Senate will resume consideration of H.R. 2354, the Energy and Water appropriations bill. We will continue to work on an agreement for the bill and notify Senators when votes are scheduled. We have a lot of work to do in the next few days. We cannot have the Defense authorization bill eat up a lot of time after we get back from the recess we will have for Thanksgiving. So everyone should understand that we are going to move forward on the Defense authorization bill. It may not be tomorrow, it may not be the next day, but we have to do it before Thanksgiving. So I hope everyone understands. I know everyone wants to get home for Thanksgiving--we all do--but we have an obligation here. In the Christmas period; that is, after Thanksgiving, we will have just a few weeks to get everything done. As important as the Defense authorization bill is, we can't eat days and days of that time in December. We have to finish that bill now. I know that won't be easy, so I would hope that people understand, if they have an idea that they are going to stop us from moving forward on the bill, on the motion to proceed, we are going to get that done and more.…”