Political Quotes

“I say to my friend, it is obvious. Think of that schedule, 30 hours beginning at 6 o'clock Wednesday going all night, all night until midnight the next night. Is that going to bring about a fatigue factor here? Of course, it will. People have to be here. All the staff has to be here working hard. Of course, it is going to slow things down. But not only slow down appropriations bills and conference reports, we have things here we should be doing. I asked last week on several occasions, why can't we pass The Military Construction appropriations bill by voice vote? Well, it is obvious why not. They want to arrange it so that it is brought up here and a time for debate on it, just for lack of a better way to describe it, just to jerk us around. Why aren't we doing the Syria Accountability Act? I don't know. There is an hour and a half time set on that. I am confident the reason they didn't do it is because they have some people who weren't here today. We don't know that, but that is why they didn't vote on it today. We know that. They are protecting certain people. None of us were protected because we weren't part of the schedule. I would hope that we would do a better job of working together on a schedule.”