Political Quotes

“Today we will be returning to the Defense authorization bill. I think this is our sixth day on the bill. We spent 5 or 6 days on it several months ago. Under the consent agreement from last Thursday, we will debate the final amendments to the Defense authorization bill today and then tomorrow morning we will have a series of votes on the remaining amendments, concluding with a vote on final passage of that bill. Those amendments include two amendments relating to our policies in Iraq and second-degree amendments to the Graham amendments on the status of detainees. We will start those votes at about 10:45 tomorrow morning, and therefore we will finish the Defense authorization bill prior to our normal recess that we take on Tuesdays for our respective policy lunches. I also want to remind my colleagues that at 4:30 today, we will begin an hour of debate on the Energy and Water appropriations conference report. This will be our sixth conference report. We have done Homeland Security, Interior, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, and then Foreign Operations. This will be No. 6 as we continue to bring these bills across the floor one by one. We will have a vote at about 5:30 today, after an hour of debate on Energy and Water appropriations. In addition to those two matters, we have a whole host of other important issues to address prior to adjourning for Thanksgiving.…”