Political Quotes

“if I may, briefly, our leader announced to the assembled Democrats last Thursday that we were not going to ask for a filing deadline on amendments but we would request from our folks a finite list of amendments so that we could get a list of the amendments people wished to offer. We were confident the Democrats were going to offer amendments that would be relevant to the bill. I am not sure what that term means--but anyway, in keeping with the Energy bill. So we can work, then, with those who have offered amendments. I have spoken to both managers of the bill. Toward the end of last week, we had a little problem in that our side had an amendment to offer and some of our Senators were not here; Senator Domenici wanted to offer an amendment and some of his Senators were not here. I hope this week we can just move forward with the amendments. Senator Domenici has an amendment dealing with Indians he wants to offer right away. We hope that can be done. He knows there is going to be a second-degree amendment offered to that. That will take several hours. I think we are moving down the road on this most important energy legislation. Once we get the amendments, we can better advise the majority leader and Senator Daschle as to how long we estimate it will take.”