Political Quotes

“the question is really centered on the debate, which we want to do in a thorough way. And the distinguished Senator from West Virginia, from day 1, has encouraged me to allow for adequate time for debate and amendment. Starting about 2 rac{1}{2} weeks ago, I made it very clear that the President of the United States would shortly deliver a supplemental-- which was now about a week ago--that I wanted to take 2 weeks--and it could be longer or it could be shorter--that we can focus on it in an organized way, and an organized way is to spend time in hearings. Indeed, after a lot of discussion, we organized hearings in such a way, as you pointed out, that the Armed Services Committee has had hearings on it, the Foreign Relations Committee has had hearings on it, the Appropriations Committee has had hearings on it. And, indeed, we have had at least seven committee hearings in the Senate. The House is having hearings at the same time. We have had interested parties engaged in formal discussions coming by your party lunch, coming by our party lunch to have the discussion with the goal that we would focus on this issue.”