Political Quotes

“Is the Senator aware on this side we would be happy to agree to set aside, temporarily, the pending amendment? For example, Senator Kennedy wants to offer something on minimum wage. He would take a very short time agreement on that: 15 minutes divided on each side. We would be happy to allow the majority to offer an amendment either as it relates to this bill, as the Senator from Arizona wants to do, or whatever else they might feel is appropriate. We would look at that and see if we could agree to a short time agreement. Even though we are in this parliamentary quagmire with three votes scheduled for tomorrow, three separate cloture votes, today we would be happy to work our way through this, doing one amendment per one amendment. Is the Senator aware of that?”