Political Quotes

“Mr. President, if I may talk to the two managers through the Chair, I know how important everyone thinks their amendment is. But you can have half an hour on each side, an hour for an amendment. Someone can say quite a bit in 5 minutes. I think we are going to have to have some guidelines as to what we are going to do. Everyone thinks their amendment is the most important, and I am sure in their mind it is. We have to set some standard. I have been very accommodating in this last 24 hours because I think so much of the comanager of the bill, Senator Shelby. We could have moved to table his amendment a long time ago. Let's understand, there are other ways we can move forward. If somebody says: I need 3 hours on an amendment--there is not an amendment on this bill that is worth 3 hours, OK? We have had a good conversation. I hope the two managers can give us some guidelines as to what they expect to do tonight and tomorrow because Members have other things to do than listen to the three of us.”