Political Quotes

“it is amazing to me the Senator from Illinois has what we call a convenient memory. Just last week there was a bipartisan bill proposed by Senator Baucus and Senator Grassley that would have covered the extension of unemployment benefits, COBRA health care assistance, flood insurance, highway bill assistance, the doc fix, small business loans, and the Rural Satellite Television Viewer Act. The convenient memory loss of the Senator from Illinois has allowed him to forget that his leader, Senator Reid, did not allow that bill to come to the floor and instead substituted his jobs bill. The majority leader's jobs bill was also not fully paid for, by the way. Ten billion dollars wasn't; five billion dollars was. So $10 billion from the jobs bill that was passed went to the bottom of the deficit. There comes a time when 100 Senators are for something we all support, if we can't find $10 billion to pay for it, we are not going to pay for anything. We will not pay for anything fully on the floor of the Senate. He said I only offered one way to pay for this. That is untrue. I offered more than one way. I negotiated with the leader--the leader's staff, rather--and we had worked out a 2-week extension for $5 billion with a different pay-for. The debt we have arrived at, even the head of the Federal Reserve Bank, Chairman Bernanke, said is not sustainable. It is unsustainable.”