Political Quotes

“this morning, following leader remarks we will begin a 30-minute period for morning business. That will be followed by an additional 30-minute period of time which has been set aside for closing remarks on the Defense authorization bill. At approximately 10:50 or so this morning we are scheduled to begin a series of votes which will end with a vote on passage of the Defense authorization bill. Those stacked votes include the Warner amendment on Iraq; a Levin amendment on Iraq; Senator Bingaman's second-degree amendment relating to detainees; Senator Graham's underlying amendment on detainees, and then final passage of the bill. Therefore, we should complete our work on the Defense bill by the start of our policy lunch recess. Yesterday, I mentioned the many items that we will need to consider prior to adjourning for Thanksgiving. The tax reconciliation bill may be available as early as later today, and we will proceed to that bill under the statutory time limit as soon as possible. We will know a little bit later this morning. We will continue to expedite consideration of the other appropriations conference reports as they arrive at the desk and we can clear them with short time agreements. We will also consider other conference reports I mentioned yesterday, the PATRIOT Act, as well as the pension bill under an agreement now being negotiated. That is the pension bill. If we use all of this time wisely we can get through our remaining business in this week.…”