Political Quotes

“following leader remarks, the Senate will resume consideration of H.R. 2112. There could be as many as seven rollcall votes. Likely, there will only be six. The Senate will recess from 12:30 until 2:15 p.m. for the weekly caucus meetings. There will be a Senators-only national security briefing at 3:30 p.m. in SVC-217. I haven't had an opportunity to speak to the Republican leader, but we will discuss whether we should be out of session during that hour. It is a very important briefing. I will talk to my counterpart to determine whether we should be out of session during that important briefing. Also, I want to put all Senators on notice that we are going to stick to our timelines on these votes. The first vote will be 15 minutes, with a 5-minute grace period. The rest of the votes will be 10 minutes, with a 5-minute grace period. If people are not here, we are turning in the vote. We have two very important caucuses today and we need to start them. We cannot have the votes dragging on forever. If you have committee meetings, walk out of them. If you have business meetings in your office with constituents, leave and come here and vote. I say to both Democrats and Republicans, we are going to turn in the votes at the end of the expired time. It is not fair to Senators who are here on time to wait for others. Senator McConnell and I have caucuses today that are extremely important. We need to have the full time.…”