Barbara Boxer: “Thank you very much, Mr. President. I want to thank my colleague from Michigan for pointing something out today that I…”

“Thank you very much, Mr. President. I want to thank my colleague from Michigan for pointing something out today that I haven't heard before, which is that this vote we are going to have tomorrow, which is a revote on the Iran nuclear agreement, adding a couple of pieces regarding hostages and sanctions regarding Israel, is actually a dangerous vote, and I agree with her completely that it is a political vote. If you ask the people on the street what they think of Congress, we just are not thought of very well because the people see through this. They see through the politics of this. You know, we have already voted on this agreement. My friend Senator Corker, my chairman--I serve on that committee. I am very proud to serve with him. He says: Well, all we want is a vote on the agreement. We gave them a vote. We wanted an up-or-down vote on the agreement. Senator Reid asked for that twice, for a 60-vote threshold. Oh, no. Suddenly, even though Senator McConnell has said over the years that every single important vote is a 60-vote threshold, suddenly--this is an important vote. How well I remember a vote cast here on climate change legislation where we got--counting the people who weren't here who said they were for it--56 votes. We fell four votes short. Wouldn't it have been nice if I had gone to the floor and said: This is outrageous. This is outrageous. Let's have a 51-vote threshold. Well, we knew we needed 60. We didn't play games. We didn't play games with it.…”