Political Quotes

“following leader remarks, the Senate will be in morning business until 12:30 today. The majority will control the first 30 minutes, the Republicans the second 30 minutes. Chairman Mikulski and Ranking Member Shelby are expected to make opening statements about 11 o'clock this morning. Just as an aside, this is a new day in the Senate. We are so grateful for the hard work of Senators Mikulski and Shelby. The amendment is offered as their substitute amendment. I am very proud of the work they did. We are going to have to work through a number of amendments, but when it is all over, we are going to send over a bill I hope the House will accept. If not, we will have a quick conference--I hope that is not necessary--and continue the work on our other appropriations bills and finish the problems we have had in being behind. The CR will fund the government until October 1. We hope by then we can complete work on our appropriations bills, so in 2014 we don't have to go through all this again--CRs and omnibuses and all that kind of stuff. We are going to recess from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. today for weekly caucus meetings. We have extended that for an extra 15 minutes because the President is going to be here today. We expect to begin consideration of H.R. 933, which is the appropriations bill I just talked about, following the caucus meetings we are going to have. ____________________”