Political Quotes

“as a continuation of the explanation, it has not been my preference to file these amendments, but we have tried over the last couple of days to bring a semblance of order so we can complete the activity that is in the Senate. It was November when we first passed this bill. The House passed a bill. Under the usual circumstances, with unanimous consent, we marry the two bills and it goes to conference. We are spending these 20 hours, and we have had good debate over the course of yesterday and this morning. But we have been unable to get unanimous consent to have a list of these amendments with language which would allow our chairman and ranking member to begin voting on those amendments. Thus, what will happen today is, as the ranking member explained, time will expire sometime around 2:15 today. I don't know the exact time. After that, there will be a series of rollcall votes. The rollcall votes begin with the Talent amendment, which is the pending amendment. After that, others will have the opportunity to offer amendments, and they would be voted on accordingly. I do encourage all of our colleagues to work with the chairman and ranking member, the managers of the bill, so we can have an orderly process and we can stick with amendments that are pertinent and relative to the underlying bill. It means if we work aggressively but work collaboratively over the course of the day we will start voting early this afternoon.…”