A lobbyist who demands anonymity was caught carrying around an "amendment" to SB 6 -- the Senate's catch-all bill that started as an effort to fix errors in other bills. The amendment would strip the caption of the bill and replace it with: "Relating to diverting attention away from HB 3 and giving the lobby a vote to satisfy their clients."

Whitmire, Bell, Dewhurst, Williams, and FriedmanSen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, after a fitful day with the Senate Finance Committee: "We're trying to get Iraq to go to this system." Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Bell, speaking at an AFL-CIO convention: "Carole Strayhorn speaking to a labor convention is like Godzilla running for the mayor of Tokyo." Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, quoted in the Houston Chronicle when the session still had a week to go: "One of the problems we have is that we've got too much time remaining. When we get closer to a deadline, people work faster." Roger Williams in the Midland Reporter-Telegram on whether he'll seek statewide office: "I love public service. I'm not going to close any doors if they're open." Kinky Friedman, asked why Carole Keeton Strayhorn got more signatures than he did, quoted by the Associated Press: "Of course she got more signatures than we. She had all her ex-husbands sign."