Political Quotes

“I thank the Senator from Maine and the Senator from Ohio. I often say to my constituents in Tennessee that they might look at Washington, DC, as if it were a split-screen television. On one side, for example, we had in September all the mudslinging back and forth during the Judge Kavanaugh hearings, but on the other side of the screen, at the very same time, in the very same Senate, in the very same Capitol, we had 72 Senators working together on opioids legislation. Senator Portman played a major role in that. We had the songwriters bill that Senator Hatch and I had been working on for 15 years. We had appropriations bills with a fourth year of biomedical funding. And we had, coming out of the Interior and Energy Committees in our Senate by a vote of 19 to 4 in the Senate and unanimously in the House, a piece of legislation sponsored by Senator Portman, Senator Warner, Senator King, and me--and others--that will do more for our national parks system than has been done in 50 years. I don't know how often my colleagues here--someone says: Well, why don't you guys ever do anything? Why don't you stop arguing with each other? Just on the floor a moment ago, I heard the Senator from New Jersey talk about a prison sentencing bill that the Senator from Utah was talking about at lunch in the Republican caucus, and then President Trump was talking to me about it on Sunday night. They are all for it. It is a huge change in prison sentencing. I mentioned a number of bills.…”