Political Quotes

“Thank you. In the first place, yes, you are right to point out I have not been objecting to those. It is a common agreement and understanding that we will reach. Not always but much of the time, we can pool together a list of amendments, put them together on a raft, so to speak--a raft that you can send forward, send out among all Senate Republicans. If no one objects, you can vote on a handful--maybe it is 4, maybe it is 40, maybe it is somewhere in between--of amendments. Then you will set up some agreements surrounding the amount of time for each of those. I am not sure of exactly all the details or all the reasons of those objecting, but I do understand there have been some of my colleagues who have objected to those. But I will say this: The fact that there are some who object to that, my understanding is--at least for some of them--I can't purport to speak for all of them but at least for some of that--what they were concerned about is making sure that any such raft of agreements not culminate in or create an expectation of a scenario in which we would limit the total number of amendments that could be offered, considered, and voted on or the total amount of time in which amendments could be considered. And that on that basis, they were objecting. I didn't harbor that particular view and wasn't making those particular objections.…”