Political Quotes

“That is true. We are going to have to start early Tuesday morning. We need to complete the impeachment as quickly as we can to make sure everything is fair, and we will make sure that is the case. We expect some work to be done on Tuesday, with votes required in the Senate. Most of the proceedings will be closed. We will have to be here. We hope we can complete this on Wednesday. I am confident, having spoken to the managers, that we should be able to do that. On Wednesday we hope to be able to complete the impeachment. If not, we will complete it whenever we can. We will have the cloture votes on Wednesday I have just indicated we will have. Then that leaves a pretty clear path to what we need to do. We hope we can have some arrangements made on the tax issues by then. We have tried to work to that point, and we have not yet done it. We have to take care of spending for the rest of the year. I have had a number of conversations with the Republican leader on that. We also hope there is time to do the START treaty, but we need to move to that either with some kind of general agreement or we can just move to it. That should give us ample time to do those things before we leave. We want to leave the Friday before Christmas Eve. That would be 8 days before Christmas. We hope we can do that. That is the plan. We all know where we were last Christmas Eve, and we don't want to be in the same place this Christmas Eve. Any questions from the Republican leader? Mr. McCONNELL.…”