Political Quotes

“Finally, tonight we are going to bring up some more members. I hope my colleagues don't object. When they are going to talk, I am sure they are going to talk about the Biden policy, which we all disagree with. Four Senators on the floor who were on the floor 2 weeks ago, we have a lot in common, but two big things are strongly pro-life and strongly pro-military because we are veterans. We have served. We know what sacrifice means, and we want to make sure we are protecting our military members and their families. That is a core principle, certainly, of Republicans, and we need to do that. What I am hopeful for--hearing from my colleagues on the floor--also questions that we didn't hear from last week. My colleague from Alabama said many times that if you bring up nominees one by one, he would be fine with it. On September 6, he said: I am not holding up nominees from being approved. They can bring them to the floor one at a time, and I won't block them. Well, that is what we are doing. By the way, this is regular order. We did some research. There has only been two times in the last half century where there was a recorded vote on a brigadier general--twice. We are doing more than regular order here by moving these individually. And, finally, this is the most important question I think we all think is imperative; it needs to be answered for our military members: Why punish patriotic military members over a policy dispute they have nothing to do with and can't fix?…”