Political Quotes

“There has been huge progress made today on a bill in conference, the FSC/ETI manufacturing jobs bill. We expect to address that hopefully very soon--I believe the House will be addressing it tomorrow--maybe tomorrow night or late tomorrow afternoon. It is a bill we are both committed to addressing before we leave. As everyone knows, we had planned to leave on Friday, October 8. It is a bill that also has been handled in an admirable way in conference by Chairman Grassley, and Chairman Thomas from the House, with a very open discussion, open debate, and votes in the conference. We plan on addressing that bill as soon as it is available and the plans will be to complete that as well before we depart. Homeland Security appropriations is currently in conference and we expect to be able to address that as well. Although our shared goal is that we leave Friday, if it requires being here Saturday or later, it means that we would have to do just that.”