Political Quotes

“I am honored to be down here again with Senators Graham, Ernst, and Young. We were down on the floor 2 weeks ago, and at that time, we promised military members and their families that we had their back; that we would keep coming down to the Senate floor to try to move forward their nominations and confirmations that have been stalled. By the way, after that session, 5 hours, we tried to move forward nominees who have nothing to do with the policy dispute that is at issue here--I think we are all in agreement on the policy dispute--we received hundreds of text messages, e-mails from military families, saying: Thank you for having our back. Somebody has our back. Somebody is speaking out for us. So we have told them we are going to do that as we are moving into Thanksgiving. My colleagues and I, we are going to keep our word. We keep our word to our military. Now, during that time in the last 2 weeks, we have all worked hard together. Senator Tuberville is here. Senator Lee is on the floor. We are all working hard to try and resolve this. We have ideas. Senator Graham is going to talk a little bit more about litigation, about switching the holds from the innocent members of the military to the civilians who are making the policy, that is the appropriate--to fighting this abortion policy of the Biden administration, DOD, and the NDAA. So we are still working on that. I want to extend that to my colleagues, but the backlog grows.…”