Political Quotes

“today we will immediately resume consideration of the Labor-HHS appropriations bill, following statements by myself and the Democratic leader. Amendments may be offered during today's session, and we hope Senators will come to the floor and offer their amendments. If Senators are unable to come to the floor, we ask that they notify the two managers or their respective cloakrooms of their intention to offer amendments and the specific subject matter. I know the distinguished chairman will have more to say on this. He has made it clear that at the appropriate time, he will go to third reading in order to complete this bill. His statement in saying that and my statement in restating that is that we will finish this bill this week. We absolutely must have people come to the floor today as soon as possible, instead of doing what has become almost a custom here, wait a few days before making the managers aware of their amendments. It means that we will be voting, of course, through this week. We will have votes later tonight which I will speak to. As I have said before, working with the Democratic leader, it is very important that we work Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. We have asked all of our colleagues, between now and Thanksgiving, to give us every Monday and every Friday instead, as has become the custom, of working Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday on the floor and not Monday and Friday.…”