Political Quotes

“next week, the Senate will consider the deficit reduction bill, a bill I spoke on in my opening comments today, a bill about which I am very excited. It answers the question of doing what is right, what the American people expect, and that is getting our deficit down, reducing the deficit by slowing down, by reducing that mandatory or entitlement spending growth. We will complete action on that important measure on Thursday or Friday. We will have a very long day on Thursday. I encourage our colleagues not to schedule anything else on Thursday because we will be voting a lot on the floor of the Senate and will do so in the fashion that we voted this week--having votes scheduled and strictly cutting off votes if Members are not here. Under the time agreement that was reached last night, we will have plenty of time for debate each day with many votes over the course of the week. I urge my colleagues--and I feel I say this again and again-- to be judicious in their offering of amendments. We will work with our colleagues on the time. We want to have and will have plenty of time for debate and amendments. We do not need to bring every amendment to the floor to make a message when it is pretty clear what the outcome will be. Again, we will protect everybody's right and opportunity to have full debate and vote accordingly, but I ask people to judiciously consider what amendments they bring to the floor.…”