Political Quotes

“I am deeply disappointed. We are going to finish this bill sometime during the next work period, or certainly give it a real try. Democrats have listened to the concerns of every Senator, especially a small group of Republicans standing in the way of international AIDS assistance. We have compromised, and we have negotiated for months. The unanimous consent agreement that I have offered is more than fair and will bring forward a strong bipartisan bill. As I said, we will have to finish this when we get back in 10 days or so. We have to finish the housing bill, we have to do the work on FISA; that should take up the first week. And, of course, we have other things to do. But this will be part of what we plan to do during the next work period. There are literally millions of people depending on us.”