Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague from Alaska for yielding. I want to begin where he finished--on the need for a bipartisan approach, one that combines different points of view, one based on compromise. Compromise should not be a dirty word. Compromise is not a four-letter word. Neither is bipartisanship. Yet our Republican colleagues have insisted on a Republican plan--on a plan that they first rammed and rushed through the House of Representatives and now, in the same way, have sought to do on their own, without consultation or compromise with Democrats. That is why the process has reached this point. It has stalled. My Republican colleagues are scrambling for a solution to an overwhelming, oppressive debt that they would force on the American people--not on ourselves, but on our children and our grandchildren, generations to come, searching and scrambling for a so-called trigger-- another gimmick--to be inserted in this bill that already underestimates the additional debt that will be foisted on our Nation. They have estimated it at $1.3 trillion or $1.5 trillion. In reality, it is probably larger, but the main point is that they have foisted it on our children and grandchildren to pay--to shoulder the burden-- simply so that the wealthiest in this country and corporations would have tax cuts. The people of Connecticut and our country face a tsunami of economic harm. This plan, in fact, is deeply unpopular among my constituents in Connecticut. I have listened to them.…”