Political Quotes

“I am thrilled that we are passing this legislation. It is amazing to me--and I am sure the Presiding Officer would agree--that the Senate has actually returned to regular order. We are passing amendments on both sides of the aisle, and I think we are going to have a big bipartisan vote here in the Senate. In having been here for a number of years when the Senate didn't operate that way--it was incredibly dysfunctional--it is a great, great privilege to be here at a moment when it is working. So I want to express my sense of gratitude for that. January 6 Commission Mr. President, I also want to call the Presiding Officer's attention to news reports this afternoon that say that our colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle have decided they are going to block this bipartisan Commission to examine what happened on January 6 and that they are going to use the filibuster here to block a Commission that some of them actually called for and a Commission that, I think, 35 Republican Members of the House of Representatives supported. I wanted to come to the floor to appeal to their conscience and to ask them to consider the damage that it will do to our democracy to not have this Commission, as we have done at other important moments in the country's history. And, Mr. President, you were here on January 6. I was here on January 6.…”