Political Quotes

“If I may be permitted to thank the distinguished chairman for that offer. It is unclear to me how it will actually be executed-- and all of this could have been avoided, from my perspective, if a simple unanimous consent request had been allowed to modify an amendment that I had that was not germane to make it germane so we could have a simple up-or-down vote, something that was in the nature of a technical correction, which I would think as a matter of custom and courtesy would be allowed. But apparently that is not the way things are operating. All of these convulsions are being engaged in simply to avoid an objection to a unanimous consent request to modify an amendment to make it germane. It could all be avoided and we could have taken care of this in 10 or 15 minutes. I don't understand if the distinguished chairman is actually making that unanimous consent request at this time or is merely explaining what his intentions are. I will try to work with him, but I am not yet sure this is going to work as he hopes it will. My objection will remain that any amendment that was not germane when filed but could be made germane by modification, as mine could, would not be permitted to be in this managers' package or passed by unanimous consent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Arizona. Mr. McCAIN. It sounds simplistic, and the hour is late and we need to vote, but the fact is there were 382 amendments that were submitted.…”