Political Quotes

“I did not mean in any sense to be negative about his approach. Frankly, it is a bipartisan issue, in my judgment. There will be Senators on both sides who will perhaps look at this amendment, which I believe is an important one in terms of the very critical subject before us today--that is, how this Nation best respects those who lose their lives in the combat operations in far lands today, primarily Afghanistan and Iraq. It is a serious amendment. There will be, I think, some support on both sides for my proposition and perhaps as well for the position of my distinguished friend from New Jersey, Senator Lautenberg. But I wish to raise the subject of sequential votes in the case of second degrees. Each one should be looked at individually rather than just establishing an ironclad policy that we will proceed to have sequential votes every time there are second-degree amendments.”