Political Quotes

“I say to the manager of this bill, first, we would probably agree to the judge without a vote. We are trying to run that through to find out if we would agree to the judge without a vote. Secondly, we have a finite list of amendments we have received on our side. We have run that through to the floor staff on the other side. We understand, rightfully so, that Senators want to see the amendments before there is an agreement on whether or not we could proceed on that basis. Yesterday, the majority leader indicated to me and to the Democratic leader that he wanted to finish this bill and could we cooperate and have a finite list of amendments. We have given those to the other side and we hope we can move forward. We have had a number of our Members who wanted to bring up amendments that are not related to this issue and we have worked to have them not do that. So we hope those amendments could be reviewed quickly. We will try to get all the amendments. The first amendment Senator Murray is going to offer, we hope there will be agreement that there would be no second-degree amendments to that. She is not going to offer it until there is some agreement to that effect. We hope to get that done quickly. We just gave the Senator the amendment. We understand it needs to be looked over.”