Political Quotes

“this morning, we are returning to the border security bill which has been pending since last Wednesday. Last night, the minority leader filed a cloture motion on the chairman's substitute amendment. I was a little surprised when I heard this happened, although I was not on the floor when it was filed. I certainly understand the rules that permit the minority leader to file this motion. I know it is a rare occurrence when the minority leader files such a cloture motion, and at this point he did on the bill. I believe we can make real progress on addressing the amendments if we allow them to come forward, debate them openly, and then vote on them. We do still have the first amendment which was offered to the bill last week pending before the Senate; that is, the Kyl-Cornyn amendment on which we voted on the motion to table last night, 0 to 99--a unanimous vote. The motion had been made and it was not tabled; therefore, it is the pending amendment. We have three other amendments Senators have offered and debated, but we have not been given the opportunity to vote on those. As I said at the outset of the debate last week, my intention was to give ample time to have amendments come forward, to debate, to fully understand what is in the Judiciary bill, to modify the Judiciary bill by debate and amendment. I encourage Members to come to the floor to do just that, to offer their amendments.…”