Political Quotes

“Mr. President, reserving the right to object, the House sent a bill over today a little after 1 o'clock, and it is 11:56 p.m. I know that every Senator here has the right to object, and I assume some people have objected to voting. We are not going to close. I had called down earlier and asked the Secretary if we are not going to vote by 10 o'clock, if we could just vote at 8 o'clock in the morning. This is ridiculous. It is juvenile. This is a juvenile process that we go through every time we do one of these. I would respectfully ask our leader, who has been dealing with a lot today--and I am glad that he has the job he has and I don't, and the Secretary has the job that she has and I don't--could you explain to us what has occurred over the last 11 hours that keeps us here voting on a bill that we all know is going to pass, regardless of how we vote on it and that has kept us from just going ahead and voting? Could you explain to the body, just very quickly, what has happened? And could we in the future possibly try to resolve these things at a decent hour, or come back the next morning and vote? Mr. McCONNELL. I would say to my good friend from Tennessee--by the way, I am very sorry he has decided to leave the Senate, given how much he has obviously enjoyed it today.”