Political Quotes

“I want to briefly say this and close my remarks by expressing my appreciation to our caucus and to the chairman of the Budget Committee, and especially to the leadership on the other side of the aisle and the ranking member. As most people know, we have been negotiating and discussing in the last several hours how to bring to closure what we all know is a big challenge, given the number of amendments that we have before us. We put our heads together and, after a lot of conversation and, as the Democratic leader said, basing a lot of what we are setting out to do over the next several days on trust, came up with an agreement that is not perfect on either side, but it is the best we can do to give some finite closure to this challenge. In addition, we have had a very good week. It is late on a Friday night and our colleagues have worked very hard. Indeed, we had very good and productive discussions. We have done a number of amendments. I congratulate the ranking member and chairman in bringing those to the floor and having good debate today. In addition to that, the resolution we agreed to sent a very important signal to our troops, our military, and our Commander in Chief: our gratitude, respect, and support. So we have actually accomplished a lot this week.”