Political Quotes

“I thank Senator Daines for the opportunity to come to the floor and talk about a bill that passed with bipartisan unanimous support out of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee addressing defense spending. I thank the Senator for inviting me to join our freshmen colleagues--new Members of the Senate, all elected in 2014--to come to the floor and have this conversation and this colloquy, to be joined by the Senator from Oklahoma who speaks so clearly on why our Nation would allow a policy to send $1.7 billion in currency to Iran but not fund our troops. Think about what the Senator from Oklahoma said. He said it so well; that our Nation's policy is to pay off Iran before we pay our troops. The Senator from Alaska--whom I commend for his courage in standing up on the frontlines of freedom for our country, his service to our country, we thank him for that service--spoke eloquently on the floor earlier, where he talked about six times this Senate has blocked, through the use of a procedural motion, funding for our men and women in uniform--six times--over the past 1\1/2\ years. This isn't a bill that people come to the floor and they are outraged about, they are opposed to it, they want something different. That is not what we are talking about. We are talking about a piece of legislation to fund our men and women in uniform that passed 30 to 0 out of the Appropriations Committee--16 Republicans, 14 Democrats, no opposition, 30 to 0--to fund our troops.…”