Political Quotes

“Madam President, well, I am going to have to disagree with my partner over here on one thing; that is, the insistence that the House stay. In my opinion, they are not going to stay. That is done. But this can still be done with their targeted adjournment date for them. The way that can happen is for us to right now--we are waiting out the vote. If nobody yields backs--it is on the Inhofe substitute. That is what we are doing right now. That vote can take place at 5 o'clock in the morning. If you moved that up--and right now we are asking unanimous consent to do that. If we are able to do that, that could happen this afternoon. That means we could have the next step, which would be to move to the bill. That could be done while they are still here. What I do not want to happen is to have them--you know, we are successful and done with our bill and then send it over to the House and they are gone. So I think we can still do it while the House is still here. I have to say--and I am not sure the ranking member of my committee, Senator Boxer, agrees with this, but I think they never believed we would be able to get the bill done. That being the case, they staked out early and said they--for any number of reasons, they are going to be gone. Well, we can do it. All we have to do is to move this up and to get time yielded back. We can do the same thing then on final passage.…”