Political Quotes

“following leader remarks, the Senate will be in a period of morning business for an hour--The majority will control the first half, Republicans the final half. Following morning business, the Senate will resume consideration of the surface transportation bill. As most know, late last night we reached an agreement to move forward on the highway bill. Under the order that has been issued, I can schedule those votes anytime after consultation with the Republican leader, so we have some 30 votes to complete today. We will see how this works. I think we will have the first vote about 2:15 today and start working through these amendments. There is not going to be a lot of debate, so if anybody wants to speak on these amendments they better come over after the morning business hour and start telling people how they feel about some amendments, because there is not going to be a lot of time during the voting on the amendments. ____________________”