Political Quotes

“I am seriously alarmed by some of the things that are in the bill and even more that are likely to occur today. It is the erosion of our defense policy's lack of fiscal discipline, strategic clarity, and constitutional boundaries. Since we passed this out of committee, the Trump administration has unleashed the military against Americans in American cities. They pushed unnecessarily expensive changes, such as renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War, and they continuously disregard the Constitution of the United States of America. As of this morning, my Republican colleagues have chosen to inject divisive, partisan amendments into this bill. We will have more about that as the day goes on. At the end of the day, most of those amendments will be adopted, and we will have a truly bad bill before us. Sorry about that, Madam Chair, but that is where you are headed. If we have a chance, we should take it a different direction. Let us think about how we are spending the money. We are going to spend probably a billion dollars retrofitting a luxury jet gifted by the Qatari royal family to President Trump.”