Political Quotes

“So let me repeat to be sure my colleagues and I understand the situation. The Chair has just told the Senate that I cannot offer an amendment to the House-passed spending bill that would strike the military retiree pay cut because the majority leader has filled the tree with his own amendments. I have read the majority leader's amendments, and I see they merely change the date of enactment by a few days. Further, parliamentary inquiry, Madam President: If a motion to table the majority leader's motion to concur with an amendment is successful, would there be an opportunity for me to offer a motion to concur with amendment No. 2572? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Yes, there would.”