Political Quotes

“I thank my friend, through the Chair, the Senator from Virginia, for the engagement. We will continue to be able to engage and be able to talk through this. Part of our challenge on dealing with this dialogue today is none of our side has actually seen the proposal tonight. It is a secret proposal that is coming out that all the conversation is that this restores the talking filibuster. We are like: Really? What does it say? Then, in the next, I guess, couple of hours, there is going to be a proposal pop and say, ``Here it is; we are changing the rules of the Senate with a 51 vote,'' when we haven't even had the opportunity to even see it. So we talk about trying to be able to bring dialogue and debate on all of these things. That is not dialogue and debate on the rules. That is trying to ram through a change with a straight 51 that none of us have even seen. And as we go through this, you had mentioned before the letter that is out there. You are correct. I read through the letter.…”