Political Quotes

“Mr. President, following leader remarks, there will be a period of morning business until 3 p.m. with Senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each. Following morning business, the Senate will resume consideration of the motion to concur to H.R. 1586, which is the legislative vehicle for FMAP and education funding. The time from 5:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. will be controlled between the leaders or their designees, with the majority leader controlling the final 15 minutes. At 5:45 p.m., the Senate will proceed to a rollcall vote on that matter. I have completed a meeting with the Republican leader and we are working to find a way to complete our work this week. We are going to have that vote tonight. There will be a consent agreement to move to take care of the Cobell, Pigford funding matter. That will be after we vote tonight. We are going to start the Kagan nomination in the morning. I haven't had the chance to call the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Senator Leahy, and I am sure Senator McConnell hasn't had a chance to call Senator Sessions because we just completed our meeting, but we should be ready to start that early in the morning. Interspersed between that debate, we have other things we want to accomplish.…”