Political Quotes

“if the distinguished majority leader will yield for a brief comment, we recognize, as has been stated by this Senator and other Senators on this side of the aisle, this is a bill which we have been on for 3 days. As the distinguished majority leader has stated, he wants Members to reconsider having cast their vote against cloture. We would also ask that the majority through the distinguished majority leader reconsider allowing us to have a vote on the overtime matter. As I have stated, we can dispose of that with 10 minutes of debate on our side. There are some other amendments. We had 75. But we have told managers of the bill if we can work that down significantly, we would do that with each amendment; we could have a short time agreement. And we think we can dispose of this bill very quickly, which I hope through the intercession of the distinguished majority leader we can do. I would simply refer to the chairman of the committee, Senator Grassley. This is a quote from him where he said: I prefer to vote on things up or down and move on. My feeling is sometime we have to face this issue. So we might as well face it now. Added Grassley: If Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist had his druthers, it might be to give Democrats a straight vote on the amendment to allow the corporate tax bill to proceed. I think Senator Grassley, who is the sage farmer of the Senate, speaks as always with a lot of wisdom. I think those two sentences speak volumes.…”