Political Quotes

“we are working in good faith. I thank the Democratic whip for his willingness to try to work through these amendments. We are reviewing, on our side, the Murray amendment. There may be some concerns about it. We are hopeful to get a resolution and enter into a unanimous consent agreement on the disposition of that amendment. We have just been handed another amendment. That is a positive step, a step in the right direction. We are hopeful we can proceed with a vote on the Murray amendment sometime today, and maybe another vote later this evening; if not, tomorrow morning. So there are fewer than a half dozen amendments we are aware of on this legislation. It looks as though we are making some progress. Again, I thank the other side of the aisle for their cooperation. I want to go back and go over some of the issues that have been discussed today about the underlying bill, which is the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, and provide the context in which this legislation comes to the floor of the Senate. Back three Congresses ago, in 1995 and 1996, this procedure had been unearthed, if you will. There was some medical literature that some Members of Congress found so abhorrent, for obvious reasons, that there was a strong belief that this procedure should be banned.”