Political Quotes

“The Republican leader and I will make a few remarks today. After that, the majority will hold the first half and the Republicans the final half of 1 hour in morning business. Following morning business, the Senate will be in executive session to consider the Gleason and Rogers nominations. At this stage, we have two scheduled votes. We are going to work with the managers, Senators Leahy and Grassley, and see whether we need that second vote, and that decision will be made later this morning. At around 12, there will be, as I indicated, up to two rollcall votes on confirmation of these nominations. Following that vote, the Senate will recess until 2:15 p.m. to allow for the weekly caucus meetings. At 2:15, we will resume consideration of the Energy and Water appropriations bill. As I indicated yesterday, we have a lot to do. Thanksgiving is the week after the day after tomorrow, and we have a lot of things we have to complete. I gave my word that we are going to do the Defense authorization bill. It still hasn't been worked out to the satisfaction of everyone, but there comes a time when we have to stop negotiating and move to the legislation. We are going to do that following our finishing the next minibus we have. It will be wonderful if we can complete that quickly. As I indicated yesterday, I am not going to fill the legislative tree, but I don't know how much time we are going to be able to spend on this with never-ending amendments.…”