Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I said it before and I will say it again: Neither option is ideal. These ought to be the options we are voting on, but actually we are not going to get to vote on the two options, we are going to get to vote on one option because this is a cloture vote. And this cloture vote will fail. It will fail because it is not a good enough bill to pass. It is not a good enough bill to get 60 votes, so it will fail. And the only purpose of it failing is to say: Look at those Republicans who killed that bill. There could be a solution, but it isn't a solution by bringing a bill directly to the floor and saying: Take it or leave it. It has to be a solution by sending it to committee and having the people there work out a way that it can be done. We have done that in our committee a number of times, and the bills that go to our committee and then come to the floor are pretty successful. But this one did not go to committee. So it isn't really two choices we are getting, it is one choice: We can take it the way the Democrats wrote it or we can forget it. They say this closes a loophole because of the wording regarding there being three or fewer shareholders. Now, I can already hear how people's minds are working. They are saying: OK, if I want to cheat on that--and you have now taught me how I can--I will add a fourth person. Now your bill doesn't cover it. So it is not written properly.…”