Political Quotes

“while we are all on the Senate floor, everyone knows the business we have before us before we begin our recess, and part, I think, of what we see rise here is we have a lot to do in a short period of time. All the business is very important. Indeed, people have been very cooperative. We were allowed to go to the Department of Defense appropriations bill by unanimous consent on Wednesday night or Tuesday--was it Tuesday night? We all agreed to go to the bill. We have had a good debate and a fair number of amendments. Now it is almost 7 o'clock and the business we need to do is the Department of Defense appropriations. We do have the trifecta bill which, as everybody knows, by normal procedure will be tomorrow morning--we will agree upon a time, an hour after we come in, but we can agree to do that at 9:30. It is normal procedure. Then we do have to deal with pensions. We know how important it is to get that done before we leave. The Democratic leader mentioned trying to do something with extenders. I think we made good progress. We have some pending amendments. I wouldn't put it out of the realm--but I would like to hear the Democratic leader's response--if we worked hard for the next 4, 5 hours and really plowed through the amendments, that we could even finish the appropriations bill and tonight go to the trifecta bill, dispose of that--however the votes fall--and we all know that will be very close. Then immediately deal with the pensions bill tonight.…”