Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I thank my colleague from Iowa who has distinguished military service and just retired. We are honored that she is leading this colloquy today. I am honored to be here with some of my colleagues. Our freshman class sees this as a critical issue, and many of us have been on the floor all week to stress the importance of what Senator Ernst just spoke about--funding our troops and stopping this filibuster that denies our troops funding. Although we have been out here all week, I am not sure I have seen any of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle coming to the floor to try to explain to the American people why they have filibustered funding for our troops not once, not twice, not three times but four times in the last year. Hopefully, they will not do it again today for the fifth time. It has been a good week for the Senate. We passed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, which was bipartisan. Senator Whitehouse, Senator Portman, and Senator Ayotte led that. We passed the FAA authorization, led by Senator Thune and Senator Nelson, which will protect the American people in the aviation space. But we have more important work today on defense issues and on national security issues, and much of it is dealing with supporting our troops. This is not a partisan issue. They need the support.…”