Political Quotes

“under the time agreement that we just entered into this evening, we have a number of motions to instruct conferees with respect to the deficit reduction bill that we will debate and vote on over the next 2 days. We will vote on three of those motions--the Baucus motion on Medicaid, the Carper TANF motion, and the Harkin food stamp motion--during tomorrow's session. These votes will start somewhere between 11:45 and noon. We will finish the remaining motions to instruct on Thursday. Over the course of this week, we will be very busy, as I pointed out earlier this morning. We will begin voting around midday tomorrow, and in all likelihood we will be voting Thursday afternoon as well. We will be stacking votes Thursday afternoon. We will be voting on Friday and may well go into this weekend if we are unable to finish our business by late Friday. That means possibly Saturday and then maybe into next week. We have a whole slew of bills that we need to address, that we have been doing and will be doing over the next several days. Tomorrow I will have more to say about the schedule. ____________________”