Political Quotes

“I have a couple of objectives. First and foremost will be an appropriate response to military action if our women and men are engaged in combat. There will be an appropriate response in terms of support for our Commander in Chief, as well as the military personnel, which will be discussed on the floor. There will be an opportunity to do that. At this juncture, we do not know when that will occur, if it will occur. In all likelihood, it will occur at some juncture. I think the fact we are hearing from both sides of the aisle that it is important to do--yet the time is uncertain--means I need to go back to the first point the chairman and ranking member made, and that is we have a lot of work to do; that the clock is ticking. The clock is ticking in terms of the budget process itself, in terms of the number of hours on both sides of the aisle. It is critically important that Members of this body come to the floor to offer amendments, to come up with specific language, to debate it and discuss it. That is the reason we are going to be here for the next 6 hours to give that opportunity to Members. We will start in the morning at an early hour in order to fulfill our responsibilities in terms of the budget. That is the plan. We will finish the budget this week. It may be tomorrow or tomorrow night, it may be Friday morning, it may be Friday afternoon, it may be Friday night, but we will finish this budget this week.”