Political Quotes

“I ask unanimous consent the committee-reported substitute amendment be agreed to; the resolution, as amended, be agreed to; the committee-reported amendment to the preamble be agreed to; the preamble, as amended, be agreed to; the motions to reconsider be laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate and any statements be printed in the Record. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment in the nature of a substitute was agreed to. The resolution (S. Res. 216), as amended, was agreed to. The amendment to the preamble was agreed to. The preamble, as amended, was agreed to. The resolution, as amended, with its preamble, as amended, reads as follows: S. Res. 216 Whereas, on September 29, 2011, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is scheduled to hold its first nationwide municipal elections since 2005; Whereas the Government of Saudi Arabia has announced--as it did in 2005--that women will be unable to run for elective office or vote; Whereas, on March 28, 2011, president of the general committee for the election of municipal council members `Abd al-Rahman Dahmash stated, ``We are not prepared for the participation of women in the municipal elections now.''; Whereas the Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia, Prince Saud Al Faisal, stated in an interview after the 2005 election that he assumed women would be allowed to vote in future elections, and that this would benefit the election process because women were ``more sensible voters than men''; Wherea…”