Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I have spoken with the chairman, Senator Boxer, and a number of other Senators, including Senator Snowe, who has offered her amendment on this bill. She has not determined yet how much time she wants. We will work with her to make sure she has some time to speak on it. Senator DeMint has indicated that he has an amendment he wants to offer. Senator Paul has indicated that he has an amendment he wants to offer. And Senator Boxer will give a statement for however long she feels is appropriate, as soon as the amendments are offered by Senators DeMint and Paul. They will debate those at a later time. We also have people on our side who want to offer amendments. To keep this fairly orderly, we will have two amendments on our side to be offered, and then we will sit down and talk about it. At that time, there will be five amendments pending. We are trying to move forward with this bill. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Senator DeMint be recognized to offer an amendment, and then that Senator Paul be recognized to offer an amendment, and then Senator Boxer be recognized to speak for whatever time she feels is appropriate, and we will have a couple offered on the Democratic side, and then we will reassess where we are after that. The only thing is, so that we know where we start on this, we want to make sure the amendments offered by our Republican colleagues and our Democratic colleagues initially be not divisible.…”