Political Quotes

“Today, when we finish morning business, the Senate will resume consideration of the Department of Defense authorization bill. The amount of work we have to do this work period is significant. As I have indicated, we want to do what we can to finish this Defense authorization bill. We want to do the Homeland Security appropriations bill. We want to be able to complete reconciliation, which is for higher education. We have SCHIP, for which there is a bipartisan agreement that will be reported out of the committee, I understand, tomorrow, which has been worked on for weeks and weeks by Senators Baucus, Grassley, Rockefeller, and Hatch. They have agreed on a bipartisan arrangement. In fact, it may have been--I do not know if it was reported out last week, but I do know there is good bipartisan support on that legislation. Some people believe it is not enough money, the $35 billion, some think it is too much, but it is bipartisan, and Senator Hatch has contacted the President, that the President would reconsider his threat to veto that bill.”