Political Quotes

“just for the purpose of our colleagues' schedules, we will not be voting Monday evening. Monday is September 11. As we said, there will be an event here at 6 o'clock, and I encourage all our colleagues to participate. But a number of our colleagues did ask whether we will be voting Monday evening, and we will not. So there will be no rollcall votes on Monday. We are going to turn to the port security bill, a bill that has been the subject of a whole lot of work by a number of our colleagues by both sides of the aisle. We have three committees that have parts of jurisdiction here. It is a very important bill. As we work to secure this country and secure the safety of the American people, we absolutely must address the issue of port security. So I am very pleased we are bringing that bill to the floor. We will address it tonight and tomorrow and Monday, and hopefully we can finish it shortly thereafter. I talked to the Democratic leader, and the managers on both sides of the aisle will be working to gather the amendments. We will be discussing and talking about those at the appropriate time. ____________________”