Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I know my colleague Senator Collins is waiting to speak. I will be very brief. Let's be clear what just happened. What just happened is the House sent us a 90-day extension of our transportation programs with not one dime of revenue in there to fund those, and the highway trust fund is on the road to bankruptcy. So they are the first in my memory--the first legislative body in the Capitol--to ever extend for this period of time without a dollar, which means an acceleration of bankruptcy of the trust fund. What else did they do? They just guaranteed 100,000 people are not going to get their jobs, and they guaranteed hundreds of businesses are not going to get jobs. They sent out a signal that America should be ready for hardship because they didn't even have the decency to put in that extension a written commitment to produce a bill, to get to conference with us, and to get a bill to the President. No, they run off on their vacation and leave people twisting in the wind. Well, I want it to be known I am one of the chairs who worked on the bill. There are many other people who were fantastic on this bill from both sides of the aisle. I know--I spoke to Senator Inhofe today about this--we want this bill done. I am going to use every tool at my disposal as one Senator to keep the pressure on the Republican House. Speaker Boehner: You are not Speaker of the Republicans, you are Speaker of the House.…”