Political Quotes

“we are going to do the farm bill today. I have gotten a number of inquiries about why did we stop the farm bill from going forward when we did. At the time that occurred, we had 26 pending amendments. Christmas is 1 week from Tuesday. We have to finish our work. We have, even today, a heavy burden having to short circuit this a little bit. We have the Defense authorization bill; that is something that is essential. In that Defense authorization bill are many things, not the least of which is the wounded warrior aspect of it that Patty Murray worked so hard on. We have the pay raise for the troops. The troops cannot get the pay raise until we do the Defense authorization bill, even though we have sent to the President and he has signed the Defense appropriations bill. We are going to come in probably at 11 o'clock on Monday. There will be a cloture vote an hour after that on FISA. People have said: Well, why did you not move? I have gotten some inquiries, especially from some of the blogs saying: Why did you not rule XIV it or something that would make it easier and allow people who do not like the bill to make their position known? I have stated on the floor--this is the third time--the reason we are going to cloture is because Senators Feingold and Dodd want a 60-vote margin on proceeding to the bill.”