Political Quotes

“Mr. President, for the benefit of all Senators, we are now postcloture 30 hours. I have been speaking off and on over the last couple of days with the Republican leader. We are trying to work our way through this. There are a lot of procedural things we have to work through. There are only a couple of amendments that are germane postcloture, but they are ones we have to figure out a way to get resolved. I am in communication with the Republican leader. I am in communication regarding an amendment that is germane over here, a germane amendment over here, and we are going to try to work through this. We could have some more votes this afternoon. In the best of all worlds we would finish this thing and move on to other issues. We are going to try to do that, but as everyone has heard over the last few days, it is hard to get that extra little distance we need. We have made great progress. I don't want to belabor the point, but it has been hard to get to this point. This has been a good debate. I wish we had more of my friends over here join us on the cloture vote. We didn't, but I think it has been a good debate, and I think it is the way the Senate should operate more often than it has, and maybe this is setting a good tone for the future. I note the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.”