Political Quotes

“I wanted to come down and make a few remarks on a couple of important topics, but I wanted to begin by just letting the American people know--and my constituents back home in Alaska--what just happened here, just a couple of minutes ago, on the Senate floor. We voted again to fund the Department of Homeland Security, and I am down here, like a lot of Senators. By the way, it was a bipartisan Senate vote to fund Homeland Security, but it didn't pass. And, you know, I have kind of moved through my anger phase more to my sadness phase with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. This is the fourth time that we have come down to the Senate floor to vote on a bipartisan, bicameral agreement. The House and the Senate got together several weeks ago--Democrats and Republicans--and agreed to fund the Department of Homeland Security. The House passed the bill--bipartisan, by the way. The agreed-to bill was going to come over here. It did come over here. And, all of a sudden, my Democratic colleagues on the other side of the aisle--not all of them, Senator Fetterman has been voting with us--said: You know what; we are not going to keep that promise. We are going to not fund Homeland Security.”