Political Quotes

“I want to follow up briefly first on the comments of Senator Sanders. We have a continuing resolution over there. The annualized cut is $70 billion. Usually when you compromise, one side gives a little, the other side gives a little. On this continuing resolution that passed out of this body, we took their numbers. Compromise means you take a little bit from both sides. We took 100 percent the numbers from the House, a $70 billion annualized cut. That is what we took. So to people who keep saying we are not negotiating, we did. As a matter of fact, we went much farther than many of us wanted. We did it because we wanted to keep the government open. So let's not get fooled by some of the political speeches they are making on the floor or over there, outside in the courtyard. We met their annualized reductions--they wanted $70 billion--with this continuing resolution. When they sent bills over here we have voted on them. They have not prevailed on their side, but we have voted on them. We sent the bill over there. It is sitting. We know by public statements by many Republicans and Democrats over there, they are ready to vote on this bill, a clean CR, continuing resolution, to keep the government open. What is amazing about this is we are debating this.…”