Political Quotes

“today I rise to discuss something that is extremely disturbing, the fact that we have less than 2 weeks before the end of the fiscal year and yet we have not put any of our appropriations bills on the floor. By ``we,'' ``we'' is not the Appropriations Committee. That is actually right on Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. He decides what comes to the floor. He decides when we do it, and yet he hasn't prioritized our men and women in uniform. I think, today, that is exactly what we should be doing. But instead, I am sure he will either conjure up another show vote like we saw yesterday or he will put another partisan nominee on the floor. Instead of considering these appropriations bills, that seems to be what we are doing. I want to be really clear. For everyone in the Gallery, we have members of the Appropriations Committee, both Democrat and Republican, that sit and work together. We have a job to fund the government. We are supposed to do it by September 30. We have marked up 11 out of 12 of those bills in an extremely bipartisan fashion. Yet those bills still sit on Chuck Schumer's desk. He hasn't brought one of them to the floor. Now, the House has sent over five bills, so what we could be doing is putting the ones that match up on this floor, sending them to conference, and actually funding them. But instead, we are doing nothing. I want you all to know that this isn't new. This is exactly what Chuck Schumer did last year as well.…”