Political Quotes

“any Senator--not me, any Senator--on any bill has the same power I have to stop the setting aside of an amendment to offer another amendment. It is not me. The Senator from New Hampshire can do it, the Senator from Arizona, or the Senator from Georgia can do it. The Senator from Iowa can do it. Any Senator; it is not me. I laid down the first amendment by virtue of being the majority leader. I have the right to do that. But that is about as far as it goes. Anytime after that, it takes unanimous consent to set aside that amendment. I agree, and offered a consent agreement, that any relevant amendment Senators want to offer, they should be able to do that, and that was objected to. But for my friend from New Hampshire to try to give a little mini lecture on what we are doing is different than anything we have ever done in the past, every day we are on a bill, it happens the way he has described it. Any one Senator can stop another Senator from setting aside an amendment and offering another amendment.”