Political Quotes

“we have returned this evening to session awaiting various conferences to finish their work and for House action on the remaining conference reports. We need to remain in session this evening in case those conference reports do become available. When we are certain one way or the other on the timing of the Defense conference reports, we will make a decision on the length of the session. Certainly if the conference report will not be available before midnight, then I do not anticipate a late evening. We should know something about that within the next couple of hours. We cannot rule that in or out at this point. Therefore, we will monitor the timing closely and then make further announcements. For tomorrow, we continue to try to set votes on seven district judges who are on the calendar. If we are not able to reach an agreement for that shortly--I hope we can set those votes for a time certain so we can alert Members. I will be discussing this shortly with the Democratic leader. Again, we will be doing our best to get word to the Senators shortly as to the schedule for this evening and tomorrow. People have worked through last night and throughout today on these conference reports and there has been a lot of activity in the last hour or hour and a half. Shortly, I will come back to the floor with something more certain in terms of the schedule for later tonight as well as tomorrow. ____________________”