Political Quotes

“this morning we will immediately resume debate on the deficit reduction package after a brief statement I have to make. Chairman Gregg opened debate on the bill yesterday and will be here managing the bill this morning. Last week we entered an agreement which divided the statutory time limit between 3 days, with all time expiring on Wednesday at 6 p.m. During today's session, Senators will be able to offer amendments. However, votes on those amendments will be stacked to occur at a later time. I will be working with the Democratic leader to determine the best time for those votes to occur. I had hoped that we could dispose of some of the proposed amendments with votes during today's session. However, at this point, we have several scheduling conflicts, and we may have to delay those votes until tomorrow. On Wednesday, we have several Members attending the funeral of Rosa Parks, and we will need to schedule votes to accommodate that service as well. Having said that, this will be a very busy week. Senators will be able to offer amendments after the expiration of time and that leads to the so called vote-arama. I encourage Senators to offer their amendments during the debate period so that we can limit the amendments considered after time expires.…”