Political Quotes

“I will have more to say on the significance of this bill in a few minutes. We will be filing the necessary cloture motion prior to adjourning today. Under the order from last week, that vote will occur at 6 p.m. tomorrow night. I will be leading a bipartisan Senate delegation attending the funeral of Coretta Scott King tomorrow, and we delayed that vote to accommodate the travel of those Senators. So that vote will be at 6 o'clock tomorrow night. For the remainder of the week, we expect to be on the asbestos bill and to make progress on consideration of that important piece of legislation by considering relevant amendments. Senators can expect votes each day as we debate and vote on those amendments. We also may have to revisit the Tax Increase Prevention Act, the Tax Relief Act, this week once again when we receive the House message on the bill. We passed that bill last week by a vote of 66 to 31. We discussed a whole range of amendments and voted on the amendments at the end of last week. It is time to get that bill to conference. I hope that we can work together to come to an agreement and arrangement to get that bill to conference without much of a delay. I will be talking to the Democratic leader as we determine how to expedite that process. I encourage Members to come to the floor this afternoon to discuss the asbestos litigation that we will begin formally on Tuesday, if allowed by the motion to proceed.…”