Political Quotes

“Mr. President, for the information of the Members of the Senate, we are going to move to the small business jobs bill. I have spoken with the Republican leader, and staff is aware, that we are going to have the same vote we had on Thursday night--that will be the amendment--with the exception that we are going to place in that bill the agricultural disaster relief that has been around for a long time. That will be added to this small jobs bill. I have spoken with Senator Landrieu, and she has indicated to me that she has had conversations with Members of the minority, and they would like an amendment or two or three. I think that will be about the limit that we should do. We will be happy to have side-by-sides or have something that would give us the opportunity to see what those amendments are going to be. So in short, we are going to work and start legislating as early as we can in the morning. I don't think we will be able to do much tonight. We will consider that. But everyone should be ready tomorrow. We are going to do our utmost to finish this bill tomorrow. Everyone should understand that we are going to do our best to get out of here a week from Friday, but we will need the cooperation of Senators on a number of things. We have a fairly long list of things we need to do before we leave. There will be no further rollcall votes today. The tree we talked about we have to tear down, but it is my understanding that we shouldn't have a problem doing that. Mr. McCONNELL.…”