Political Quotes

“I am here on the floor to add my support to the resolution being brought before us by Senator Duckworth. This is the third week in a row that we are having an opportunity on the Senate floor to have a short debate and a vote on the most significant military engagement in the Middle East in many of our Senate careers. We are now a month and a half into this bungled, mismanaged war, and we have yet to have a single hearing in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee or the Senate Armed Services Committee on this war, on this military operation. In the absence of these privileged motions that we are bringing-- thankful to Senator Duckworth for bringing one this week--we would have no debate, no vote on the floor on the authorization of war, maybe the most sacred charge we are given as U.S. Senators. We should not normalize that. We should not fail to note how extraordinary it is that our Senate Republican leadership has declined to do any oversight of a war that is costing billions of dollars every week, that has already led to the loss of over a dozen American lives, that has erupted a regional war throughout the Middle East and is literally melting down economies all over the world, especially in the developing world--not a single hearing--not a single hearing--in the U.S. Senate. Secretary Rubio, Secretary Hegseth have not come to the Senate to explain what their plan is, what their strategy is, what their endgame is. And I think we know the answer.…”