Political Quotes

“Mr. President, following any leader remarks, there will be a period of morning business until 4 p.m. today, with Senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes during that period of time. Following morning business, the Senate will resume consideration of the Food Safety Modernization Act. At 5:30 today, Senator-elect Mark Kirk will be sworn to be a Senator from the State of Illinois. At 6:30, the Senate will proceed to vote on the substitute amendment to the food safety bill. Under an agreement reached before the recess, if cloture is invoked, all postcloture debate time will be yielded back except for the time allotted in agreement and the only amendments or motions in order are motions to suspend the rules offered by Senators Johanns and Baucus, both relating to 1099 forms, and two offered by Senator Coburn, one relating to earmarks and another, a complete substitute for the bill. If cloture is invoked, we will debate the motions and then stack the votes for later tonight. There is up to 1 hour total on the Johanns and Baucus motions and 4 hours on the Coburn motions. Upon disposition of the motions, the Senate will proceed to vote on passage of the food safety bill. I spoke to Senator McConnell earlier today. It was suggested that what we would do, if we can get permission from the Senate, is have the two votes. We will have the cloture vote and Johanns and Baucus, and then there is 4 hours of debate, which would put us until 11, 11:30 tonight.…”