Political Quotes

“this morning we will have a period of morning business which will allow Senators to come to the floor to make statements. I announced last night that there would be no votes today, and I do not anticipate a lengthy session. We expect to consider some executive nominations over the course of the morning, and we also will be able to consider any other cleared legislative items before closing. On Monday, under our order from last night, we will begin consideration of the deficit reduction bill. I will have a few comments on that shortly. That bill does have a statutory 20-hour time limit, and we now have an order which divides that time over the course of Monday. Also, we have set out a time for Tuesday and Wednesday of this coming week. We will not have any votes during Monday's session, but Senators can expect a very busy week on that deficit reduction package. I will have more to say about the course of next week later today and will outline the voting schedule, as we know it, a little bit later this morning. I congratulate, once again, Chairman Specter and Senator Harkin for completing the work on the Labor-HHS appropriations bill last night. That was the final of our 12 appropriations bills to be considered by the Senate. Senator Cochran has done a tremendous job throughout the appropriations process, and we thank him for his efforts and his committee members for shepherding the bills through. ____________________”