Political Quotes

“we have worked long and hard this whole week trying to move forward on the legislation dealing with our appropriations bills. It has been difficult, and one reason it has been difficult is this is kind of a new area we are working in; that is, legislating. I was very impressed to see Senator Mikulski talk with great clarity about how nice it was for her to again be legislating. But we are not there yet. We were hoping to have a number of votes today--tonight--but we haven't been able to do that. We are getting close. Our staffs are working very hard to come up with an agreement we hope we can do tonight, to set up a series of four to six votes in the morning and then, hopefully, a pathway to completing this legislation. We have other issues. Always we have to do more than one thing at a time. So we will move forward, the Republican leader and I, on filing a couple of cloture motions that we are going to set up for votes either Friday or hopefully we can get them done tomorrow. Mr. McCONNELL. If I can make just a couple remarks. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Republican leader. Mr. McCONNELL. We do have a number of amendments pending, and we are working our way in the direction of getting back to a normal process. I share the majority leader's hope and his view that we will have a number of votes, hopefully tomorrow, as a result of an agreement we are working on. ____________________”