Political Quotes

“Mr. President, as I stated in my remarks earlier, this is not any kind of a legislative wrangle I am having with my friend from Maine. She has been the only person I could talk to about this legislation. I appreciate her time and efforts. But the only way we can do this--and we do it all the time--is I fill the tree and we will try to work through the amendments with some agreement after that is done. This has been taking months to do--months. The time has come, as Senator Levin said, to stop playing around. Mr. President, I simply make the following request: I ask upon reconsideration, cloture is invoked--the reason I do this, we can get to where I want to go. It takes three votes. We can do it with three votes or one vote. Upon reconsideration, cloture is invoked on the motion to proceed. Then the Senate can proceed to the bill and would be able to enter into an orderly process for consideration of the bill, allowing different amendments. We have already been through that. There is no need to go through that number. But we have talked about 15--5 from us, the Democrats. So I make my request. I ask unanimous consent that the motion to proceed to the motion to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on the motion to proceed to S. 3454 be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be agreed to, and the Senate now vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to S. 3454, upon reconsideration. I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…”