Political Quotes

“I know this might be one of the last presiding duties of the year, so I appreciate the Presiding Officer taking the time on the floor before she gets to go home. I want to talk about two issues today here on the Senate floor. One is a really important one. It is a policy issue that we have to solve. What I am trying to do today is just make sure my colleagues--because a lot of them get kind of fed some misinformation on this issue and then the American people writ large--know what is going on so we can fix this issue. I am hoping the White House and the administration and the Treasury Department--that everybody is watching because this is an easy one. Imagine this, if someone came to you and said, ``All right. Let's see. Is there legislation that we could pass that would help end slave labor in China, with the Uighurs; help make sure we had a really strong environment for our oceans and our fisheries; help make sure we weren't funding the Russian war machine to go kill innocent civilians in Ukraine; help make sure we keep strong American coastal communities; and help promote the great American fishermen, who work so hard all over this great Nation?'' We have been doing it way before the founding of the Republic. If there is legislation that could do all of those things, wouldn't you want to support it--oh, by the way--and that could undermine our adversaries, the two big adversaries we have, Russia and China? Is there legislation pending in the U.S.…”