Political Quotes

“the Republican leader and I have done enough back and forth, staking out our positions, and our positions are fairly clear to the American people. What we are going to try to do during the next few hours is work toward resolving some of the outstanding issues. I just had a very comfortable conversation with Senator Inouye and his Appropriations chief of staff Charlie Houy, along with my chief of staff David Krone, and I think we have made pretty clear the issues that relate to the omnibus. I think, according to Senator Inouye, those issues should be resolvable. We have a few issues that are still outstanding, but they are small in number. The House is suggesting moving forward on an individual bill. I think that would be a mistake. I think what we should do is the conference report, and I think that is the direction we are headed. There are a couple of issues we have to still work out with the White House, but I am in touch with them also. On the payroll tax and unemployment tax extenders and SGR, the Republican leader and I have been in discussion on that issue. We hope we can come up with something that would get us out of here at a reasonable time in the next few days. ____________________”