Political Quotes

“Following leader remarks, if any, the Senate will resume consideration of the National Defense Authorization Act. The filing deadline for second-degree amendments is 4 o'clock today. At 5 p.m., the Senate will proceed to executive session to consider the nomination of Paul William Grimm to be United States District Judge for the District of Maryland. At 5:30 p.m., there will be two rollcall votes: first on confirmation of the Grimm nomination, and then on the motion to invoke cloture on S. 3254, the Defense bill I just spoke about. Mr. President, significant progress has been made on this legislation. The two managers of the bill, as I indicated, know how this place works, and they worked extremely hard to clear a lot of amendments. We soon will be approaching 100 amendments that have been dealt with in this legislation. In fact, for all I know, they could have already done it since this morning, so I think we have made great progress. I know there is more progress that can be made by their continuing to work on this. ____________________”