Political Quotes

“I want to compliment my good friend from Montana, Senator Daines, who was on the floor just now talking about government accountability. That is what I am going to talk about-- government accountability. We need much more of it, and we need much more of it in the Veterans Administration. So today, what I am going to be doing is I am going to ask for unanimous consent on my bill, the PRO Vets Act, that we all need to move forward, both on funding the VA--I am going to talk about this shortfall--but also on having some reforms to the VA. They are very simple. I will be really disappointed if any of my colleagues come down here and block my unanimous consent request. That is just me asking all my Senate colleagues to pass this bill right now. But when you hear about it, you will say: Why wouldn't we pass that? Holy cow. The VA needs a little accountability--actually, a lot of accountability. But here is what is going on. A little context of my legislation-- which, by the way, right now already has 15 cosponsors. We just put this together 2 weeks ago, given the crisis at the VA, and it has 15 cosponsors. Just 6 weeks ago, Congress was officially informed and many of us were surprised--by the way, I sit on the Veterans' Affairs Committee, so I am very focused on these issues.…”