Political Quotes

“If I may say to the manager of this bill, I believe that cloture will be invoked. This legislation is so important to this Senator and my colleague, the junior Senator from Nevada. We know how this bill helps us. The Senator mentioned surface transportation. One of the things the Senator is helping us with on this bill, which we needed so badly, is a fixed-rail system, the monorail we have to take from the airport. McCarran Field now gets almost 40 million visitors a year in that little airport, and we need some way to bring those people into the strip and the downtown. I say to my friend, having managed a number of appropriation bills over the years, if by some chance this bill does not pass and whoever is responsible for defeating this bill, either directly or indirectly, when this bill goes on some big omnibus bill, many of these projects, many of these programs which Senator Murray and Senator Shelby have worked so hard on will just be gone. Is that a fair statement?”