Political Quotes

“And we can't get a vote on that. The Freedom to Vote Act. Seventy percent of all voters, including 54 percent of Republicans, support it. All of them have been blocked by Senator McConnell and his abuse of the Senate rules--not some great, venerable tradition of the U.S. Senate but his modern-day abuse, his caricature of the Senate rules. And it has created a minority veto--something that the Founders of this country would never ever in a million years have imagined that this place would be perverted into. They knew the trouble that would cause because they had had the Articles of Confederation, which is what they were trying to replace at the Constitutional Convention. I am coming to an end, so I apologize to colleagues. But let me just say, none of this has stopped us from cutting taxes by $8 trillion, mostly for the wealthiest people in this country, and none of this has stopped us from putting lots of rightwing judges on the court when Donald Trump was here because you can do those things with 51 votes. That is about the extent of Senator McConnell's legislative agenda, so I am not surprised that he prefers the status quo. But for the majority of Americans who believe that the next generation actually demands something greater than that from the Senate and from all of us, from each of us, we need a Senate that works. Mr. President, think about this. Think about this. It is easy to forget. The Clean Water Act of 1972 passed 74 to 0.…”