Political Quotes

“today, following the 1 hour for morning business, we will resume work on the Department of Defense authorization bill. Under the agreement reached last night, we have two rollcall votes to begin at 11:30 this morning. The first vote is on Senator Talent's amendment relating to C-17s, and the second vote is in relation to the Dorgan amendment on a special committee. Yesterday, we made good progress on the bill, and we will finish the bill today. In addition to a couple amendments already pending, there are only a few remaining amendments in order to be offered. Senators should be prepared to offer those amendments this morning. I hope we can finish this bill at a reasonable time today. I encourage the two managers to move forward with the bill if Senators do not show up to offer their amendments. We must finish the Defense bill today, along with three appropriations conference reports that are now at the desk. I do not expect a great deal of debate on those conference reports, but we will need to schedule rollcall votes on each. Having said that, we will have a full day of voting to finish our work, but with the cooperation of Senators, we can complete our work at a reasonable time today. ____________________”