Political Quotes

“briefly, because I know the Democratic leader has another statement to make, I am absolutely committed to completing and giving adequate time to complete what is a complex bill. As the Democratic leader implied, there are a lot of issues we need to talk about in this bill. I appreciate the spirit in which he and I are approaching the bill, in terms of allowing debate and amendment and also addressing issues about conference, to make sure--I know what his intent is--that the will of the Senate is expressed strongly in that conference. I do encourage all of our colleagues to recognize that step one is debating the bill here on the floor of the Senate, getting it off the floor with a majority vote, and I would argue for a good comprehensive bill stressing the border and border security. What I would like to do, as I discussed scheduling with the Democratic leader, is to be on the immigration bill next week and the following week. That should give adequate time. There was one last thing, at least on our side of the aisle. In terms of numbers of amendments, we are doing our very best to focus each and every day on the amendments which would be substantive amendments, to try not to have unnecessary amendments or amendments just for political reasons but substantive amendments coming to the floor. Hopefully, coming to the floor, people will continue work. People don't see that on the floor, but literally every day we are meeting looking at those amendments.…”