Political Quotes

“Mr. President, reserving the right to object, we can have the debate about judges, but I think we ought to first take care of the business before us that the Senate voted to proceed to, which is to deal with the legislation to avoid the State-by-State requirement for labeling our food products, which has been agreed to by the Senator from Michigan, the ranking member of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, together with the chairman of the committee, the Senator from Kansas. We ought to be taking care of that, and we also ought to be taking care of this. This is urgent. How people can think we need to deal with these lists of judges and sort of hijack the agenda and distract us from our work on preventing these sort of birth defects is, frankly, a misplacement of priorities. I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The Senator from Massachusetts.”