Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I have a motion to instruct conferees which is at the desk, and I ask for its consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. Reed] moves that the managers on the part of the Senate at the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on H.R. 1735 (the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016) be instructed to insist that the final conference report fully fund the President's budget request for the Department of Defense, including $534.3 billion in base budget funding and $50.9 billion in Overseas Contingency Operations budget funding, thereby supporting the bipartisan view that the funding caps imposed by the Budget Control Act of 2011 should be eliminated or increased in proportionally equal amounts for the revised security and non-security spending categories. The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is 2 minutes of debate equally divided on the motion. The Senator from Rhode Island.”