Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we have made good progress on this bill. We are working through the amendments. The staff has been doing yeomen's work. The Finance Committee is going to meet on Tuesday to report out funding for this bill. They have a path forward to do that. We need to keep the amendments relative to the Federal Aviation Administration and that has been good. We have made, as I indicated, progress. We have had some substantive amendments we worked on. We are voting on a couple here this evening and staff have worked on a number that they can resolve. We are going to make more progress next week. We hope to complete action early in the week of February 14. As indicated--it has been scheduled for a long period of time--the Democratic Senators have a retreat next week. We are going to have votes Monday night and Tuesday morning. Everyone can count on that. But we believe, looking at the schedule tomorrow, we can accomplish just as much with having the Senate in session tomorrow. The majority will be here taking amendments or doing whatever is necessary on this bill. If somebody wants to give a speech on whatever their heart desires, they will be able to do that tomorrow also. This next vote will be the last vote of the week. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Republican leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, we are making good progress on this bill. This bill is being handled as we have been accustomed in the old days to handling bills in the Senate.…”