Political Quotes

“everyone should know that we have cooperated on this bill every step of the way. There was no reason to do a motion to proceed to this. We allowed this to take place in spite of the fact that there were many other things going on taking the attention of the Senators. We have been very cooperative in offering amendments. This is a bill that is very important to the country. I think they should allow us a little bit of time to determine what is in the bill and what should be in the bill. There are people who have amendments to offer, and for my friend, the distinguished senior Senator from Alaska, to come here and threaten us that he is going to try to stop debate on this bill is not in keeping with the decorum of the Senate. We have amendments to offer. I have offered, starting this morning, that we come up with a list of finite amendments and finish this bill in a reasonable amount of time when we get back. We are not going to be able to finish this bill now. We have the so-called trifecta, we have the pensions program we have to deal with that affects 45 million people directly, 145 million people indirectly. In addition to that, we have these tax extenders. We, the Democrats, didn't put us in this procedural quagmire. Had it not been for the distinguished Congressman from Tennessee, who said: We outfoxed the Democrats--no Democrat was outfoxed. The American people haven't been outfoxed. We didn't put anyone in this position.…”