Political Quotes

“I object. Mr. President, I understand the Senator from Nevada has suggested we simply amend the bill we passed earlier this year and send it back to the House. I respectfully suggest to the Senator from Nevada, through the Presiding Officer, we did that once. We passed this bill once and sent it to the House, and the House struck that bill and sent their version back. I don't think we gain anything by then taking the very bill they rejected and sending it back to them and expecting them to pass it. That is what I would call ping-pong. That is back and forth with nobody getting anywhere. That is why there are things such as conferences, where we actually sit down and try to work out differences. I am not familiar with the list of bills the Senator from Nevada laid out when he said we have been able to accomplish passing of legislation without having a conference. And that is true. We are going to do one, hopefully, tomorrow, the Syria Accountability Act. But the changes between what the House wanted and what the Senate wanted were very minor changes, a couple of finding changes and basically a change in the waiver status. We talked to the House and they were willing to accept it because they were minor changes. That is an important piece of legislation. I would consider that a major piece of legislation, but it is not a particularly complex piece of legislation as we are dealing with--with a lot of the moving parts--as we have in the charitable giving act, the CARE Act.”