Political Quotes

“There is a multitude of tax issues and a lot of things totally not relevant to this farm bill. But I would say through the Chair to my friend that I am going to take a look at this--I have had some good meetings with my staff and Senator Harkin today--and make a decision about what we should do on this tomorrow. But the question I have of my friend from Georgia is how long do we have to work on this, work our way through these amendments? There are about 280 or 290 amendments. I sit here today and I say again, I have no doubt that the vast majority of the Democrats--with a significant majority of Democrats, with a handful of help from the Republicans, cloture would be invoked on this bill. So I say to my friend, how long do you think we should play around with all of these amendments? Is there a magic number we need to have votes on some of them? When should I file cloture? If farm State Senators and if other Senators want a farm bill, time is wasting.”