Political Quotes

“I wish to ask my colleague from Nevada: Wouldn't it be true that the ambit the minority leader asked for would allow the other side to automatically have amendments on, say, renewing the President's tax cuts, or undoing what happened with the estate tax, and repealing the entire estate tax; nothing to do with this housing bill? That is my first question. My second question is: If the minority leader showed the majority leader five amendments that were within the confines of this legislation--ideas such as the Isakson idea or the Martinez idea or others such as that--that he would willingly go along and we would come to the floor and debate the amendments and move the bill forward but that the parameters the minority leader has asked for would allow us to debate the whole--everything but the kitchen sink and bring up all these old saws that we have been through again; isn't that correct?”