Political Quotes

“reserving the right to object, I know when people talk, they are always afraid people aren't listening. Maybe my friend the Republican leader's intention was diverted from my presentation this morning. There is nothing to fight about. I just said we are going to move to this bill as quickly as we can. I said I have heard that the ranking member of the Banking Committee wants to take a look at this. I encourage him to do so and to talk to Senator Johnson. I said we are going to have an opportunity to vote on a perfecting amendment-- something I thought everyone wanted; Republicans want it, Democrats want it, the business community wants it, the workers of this country need it--to reauthorize the Ex-Im Bank which goes out of business at the end of May. That will slow this bill up maybe a half an hour--one- half hour. I have said many times, if we are going to have a fight, make it over something worthwhile. There is nothing to fight about here. We are going to move to this as quickly as we can. We know that under the rules of the Senate, we have to vote on 17 judges who have been held up, one of those back to October of last year. So I would be happy to get rid of all of those judges, to have them approved, and move to this bill. We are going to move this bill as quickly as possible. My friend the Republican leader spoke volumes when he said this is a small but important bill. We realize that. Those are his words.…”