Political Quotes

“Madam President, I appreciate my friend's request to modify my unanimous consent request. But my response to that--reserving the right to see if I would accept that--is this: Everyone in America-- everyone--knows what the issues are before this body. The Mikulski-Reid amendment we are going to be required to vote on is pretty simple. It says there will be nothing dealing with ObamaCare. We have changed the date to November 15 from December 15, and we have gotten rid of the ``pay China first.'' That is it. These so-called anomalies--I have met with the Republican leader. Staffs have gone over that--no problems with that. So this is an effort to stall, and I do not know why--an effort to stall. It is absolutely unfortunate because, I repeat, every minute that goes by is 1 minute closer to a government shutdown. Because when we finish this, we then have to have the American people focus on whether we are going to have a debt ceiling, whether we are going to again crash the economy, as we did the last time that threat came. Maybe someone thinks they can come with their great speaking ability tomorrow and change people's minds. Everybody in this body knows how the votes are going to go. This is going back to the House of Representatives. The House of Representatives has said--they have said publicly and they have said privately--they are going to send something back to us. I want to make sure, if they do that, we have time to process it.…”