Political Quotes

“Mr. President, before the Senator from Louisiana leaves the floor, I just want to commend her for the passion she has brought to this debate, as well as the reason and the wisdom she has brought to this debate. This is a bill that is extremely complex. The House bill comes over and it has had almost zero the attention it deserves because of the complexity in this bill. But Senator Landrieu has been a voice appealing to us to do what the Senate should do, which is deliberate. If there has ever been a bill which cried out for deliberation, it is this bill. The way it stands now, amendments are not going to be in order, and that is not the way we should proceed in this body. We are all grateful--I hope everyone is grateful--to Senator Landrieu for kind of blowing the whistle on the 100-mile-an-hour train that is moving through this Senate unless we stop it tomorrow and say: Slow this down. Let's look at the details of the provisions of this bill. In the years since the financial crisis sent our economy into a tailspin, many of us in the Senate have sought to do what we could to create the conditions for a rebound in the job market so that American workers could find the jobs they needed. We have fought, we have debated, scratched, and clawed our way to do everything we could to boost job creation. Now before us is a bill called the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act--the acronym being the JOBS Act.…”