Political Quotes

“in the big picture, let me say at the outset that things are going very well. It is 9:30 on a Thursday night. We are making decisions about tomorrow and Monday. We have had a very good week. I thank the Democratic leader and both managers for making great progress over the course of the week. It is very frustrating, from a leadership standpoint, for the Democratic leader and myself, where we have to truncate and essentially stop tonight when we could have had a productive day tomorrow morning. Two reasons. The managers have done such a good job addressing such a large number of amendments--more than I had anticipated--which is good, which means the amendments that remain, they want a lot of people around to be able to vote on those. In part, I am making an excuse because I told everybody we are going to vote tomorrow morning. Given where we are, it is in our best interest to complete debate tonight, and the votes we would have had tomorrow we will have Monday. There will be at least two votes starting at 5:30 on Monday. We do have to recognize in this body that we cannot stop work on a Thursday afternoon or evening. We have to be able to use Fridays, especially over the remainder of the session. We don't have that many days. Even between now and next week, we have this bill--and that is why we are working as hard as we can--and we have the Kavanaugh nomination, which is out there and ready to bring to the floor.…”