Political Quotes

“I do stress the importance to leadership on both sides of the aisle--we have been in constant communication-- that people have the opportunity to express themselves and to have that appropriate debate on the floor. Again, we were on the bill all last week. Yes, we had some interruptions last week with extraneous circumstances, but resilience came through and we had the opportunity with the floor open, as it will be all this week. At the end of the day, our obligation is to have that opportunity to debate, have our ideas reflected, and then give people an opportunity to choose. That is, again, my goal over the course of the debate during this 2-week period. With that, I would like very much to finish the bill this week and give each of our colleagues the opportunity to choose and reflect their opinions on this bill.”