Political Quotes

“we have done very well today. We have 2\1/2\ pages, and we almost have a page of our amendments finished. We are going to have 2 hours of debate of the time set forth for the resolution of disapproval. That will start at 7:50 tonight or thereabouts. One of the Senators agreed to take a voice vote, and that saved us 15 minutes. So we gave them 10 minutes off. If everybody will look at these amendments, we have to finish this bill and flood insurance this week. We have to do that. I don't want to be crying wolf that we are going to have to be here Friday. We need to finish our work, and we can do that. People have been here, and we have finished some of our votes before the time even expired. That is difficult. The floor staff has a difficult time recapping the votes, but everybody did a good job. I hope one of the things we can look at is that perhaps Senators Boxer and Inhofe could look at giving back an hour of their time for debate. I think virtually everybody knows how they will vote on this issue. The debate could be stunning and somebody could change, but I doubt it. If they will consider giving back an hour of their time out of the 4, it will help us. I don't want to be here until 2 o'clock Friday morning. I don't want to do that. I hope we can work through this. We will have a limited amount of morning business tomorrow and we will start voting as soon as we can and we will move quickly like we have today.…”