Political Quotes

“I say to Senators, this is not something Senator Baucus has gone around lobbying, suddenly making these nongermane or raise points of order because of the budget. This is something that has been done by the Parliamentarian. As the Senator indicated, if it is a germane point of order, it takes a simple majority to override that point of order. As we learned in the past, they are not going to get 51 Senators to override germane points of order. It has created real tangles for the Senate in the past. That is not going to happen. Those amendments relating to budget matters, if they can get 60 votes, fine. We will have to see how that happens. I hope to facilitate moving this bill. The chairman of the committee, the manager of the bill, is doing the absolutely right thing. It is going to happen at some time. As I indicated, those who are following their amendments know whether it is germane or not germane because the Parliamentarian made that decision a long time ago.”