Political Quotes

“that is a sad state of affairs in Washington. It is very clear that a point of order lies against this supplemental. That means someone could raise a point of order, and it would take under rule XXVIII a simple majority to overrule because it is clear it would properly lie. It remains to be seen if anyone is going to raise that point of order, but clearly it is available to anyone in the Senate. I hope in the future we can have a regular process for budgeting and a regular process for conference committees to meet. We have talked about doing that before. Under the Republican majority, conferences are not really the way we used to do them--publicly. The Republicans run these committees privately. There are no public votes most of the time. It is a sad commentary how they have run things here, but as I said before, during the 4\1/2\ years the President has been in office--I guess it is 5\1/2\ years now, I am sorry--we have not had three branches of Government. We haven't had legislative, executive, and judicial branches of Government. We have had two. We have had the executive and judicial branches. There have been no Presidential vetoes. There has been no need for a Presidential veto because the President gets anything he wants, as indicated with this legislation going forward now.…”