Political Quotes

“Mr. President, reserving the right to object, I would ask that the request be modified to allow Senator Isakson to speak for 2\1/ 2\ minutes following the agreement to this unanimous consent request, and that I thereafter be recognized to offer a unanimous consent request regarding something on this bill. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendments were agreed to as follows: amendment no. 3401, as modified On page 75, line 4, strike ``excessive rainfall or related'' and insert ``drought, excessive rainfall, or a related''. On page 76, line 1, insert ``fruits and vegetables or'' before ``crops intended''. On page 76, line 13, strike ``90'' and insert ``112.5''. Beginning on page 76, strike line 18 and all that follows through ``(4)'' on page 77, line 17, and insert ``(3)''. On page 78, strike lines 3 through 7 and insert the following: ``not more than $300,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2011, to carry out a program of grants to States to assist eligible specialty crop producers for losses due to a natural disaster affecting the 2009 crops, of which not more than-- (A) $150,000,000 shall be used to assist eligible specialty crop producers in counties that have been declared a disaster as the result of drought; and (B) $150,000,000 shall be used to assist eligible specialty crop producers in counties that have been declared a disaster as the result of excessive rainfall or a related condition.…”