Political Quotes

“we will be very brief. I know we have two of our colleagues on the floor prepared to speak. What we have just done is turn to the conference report on the PATRIOT Act, a vitally important piece of legislation, that in bipartisan way our colleagues have addressed, in a bicameral way, and it is now our intention to address the PATRIOT Act, discuss it over the course of, I am sure, later this evening as well as tomorrow. Because we were unable to come to a unanimous consent agreement to address this bill in a limited amount of time, in an appropriate amount of time, and then to vote up or down on the bill, I filed a cloture motion, and that cloture vote will actually be Friday morning. I will have more to say about that. Let me briefly turn to my distinguished colleague, who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee, who has put together, again in a bipartisan way with a lot of negotiation and compromise over the long period of time, a bill that, as we all know, has passed the House of Representatives earlier today with I believe 44 Democrats voting for the PATRIOT Act in the House of Representatives, a bill that we now will be addressing on the floor of the Senate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Pennsylvania.”