Political Quotes

“this week, we are beginning with the House message on the Taxpayer Relief Act. This bill passed the Senate on February 2 by a vote of 66 to 31. The House has appointed conferees, and we are now taking up that message to appoint Senate conferees. There will be motions to instruct the conferees that will be offered by the other side. They have provided us with a list, and we hope they will not all be offered. We will be discussing that shortly after the opening this morning. In any event, we will begin the process of appointing conferees with votes on the motions to instruct. As I announced on Friday, we will debate the motions today and stack the votes to begin around 8 o'clock this evening. Therefore, we do expect votes to begin at that time. We may decide to have some of the votes on Tuesday morning, depending on how many of these motions to instruct the other side offers, but we will make that determination after we discuss what will be offered, and hopefully, during the course of the afternoon, I am sure that will settle out. I will reiterate that we will be in session into the evening with those votes. This is the last week of legislative business before the Presidents' Day recess. We will first appoint conferees on the tax bill, and we will return to the asbestos bill after we address the tax bill over the course of today and likely into the early morning tomorrow.…”