Political Quotes

“we are going to have two votes at noon today. After that, the next vote will be at 5:30 on Monday. There will be a series of votes on Monday. As I indicated this morning, the Republican leader and I have spent some time together and I think we have had a productive discussion on the schedule. This schedule has been extremely difficult for everyone. We have worked out a schedule that allows for the next set of votes which will occur at noon today to be the last votes of this week. We agreed on Monday evening the Senate will vote on the matters that we would have voted on the rest of today and this weekend. So on Monday at 5:30 in the afternoon, the Senate will vote on Patterson, Johnson, one would be on the cloture on Johnson, and then it will be confirmation. We are doing our utmost to finish our business here a week from today so we can go home for Christmas. So we will be in session Sunday afternoon. There will be no votes on Sunday. The next rollcall, I repeat for the third time, will be 5:30 p.m. Monday. On Tuesday, we will begin consideration of the budget and Wednesday the Defense bill. After that, we will address further nominations of which the most important one is Janet Yellen to be on the Federal Reserve. The others, I will work with Senator McConnell filing a number and see how many we can get done. I personally thank Senators for their cooperation this week and next week as we work through these important matters.…”