Political Quotes

“I think for today, of course, we will agree to that. But again, I want to come back to the fact of whether it is competitive and the accusations of a filibuster going back and forth. That is going to sort of occur. Let me just say on the part of the chairman and myself that as long as we are having good participation, it is important--not just listening to people because they want to get out and talk for an hour, which looks like a filibuster--to the American people that we work in good faith to come to what I hope will be a fair up-or-down vote in a reasonable period of time, and games are not in order and are not to be played. At the end of the day, we expect no filibuster--again, that is a decision which will be made on your side--because the American people deserve better. If there is insistence on a filibuster, we will use everything within our power being in the majority under the Senate rules to bring this to an up-or-down vote.”