Political Quotes

“we spent most all of yesterday doing nothing. Senator Daschle came on the floor late in the day and filed a petition for cloture because he recognized they were going to slow-walk this legislation on the supplemental appropriations bill, and then referred specifically to what one of the Republican Senators said yesterday, that they were going to slow down the train. Today's publication of the Congressional Quarterly Monitor suggests they are doing what the majority leader said: Senate Republicans say they will not hesitate to slow-walk legislation important to Democrats, while aggressively pushing their own agenda. The problem is, at this stage I don't know what 'their' agenda is. We have tried to move forward on legislation that is important to their President; namely, this legislation dealing with the supplemental. The supplemental appropriations bill is very important, as we discussed on a number of occasions yesterday. This legislation is entitled: 'Supplemental Appropriation Act for Further Recovery From and Response to Terrorist Acts in the United States.' If that is not important, I don't know what is. They are slow-walking that. They are slowing down the train.”