Political Quotes

“Madam President, why are we here? Why is this Senate dedicating this entire day to a debate on the floor? Well, we are here today to talk about, to debate and consider two critical voting rights bills. It is our fourth try. It is our fourth try. The three previous times we have tried to get on this bill, there has been a filibuster on the motion to proceed, an obscure a procedural standing that prevented us from getting to this bill. We are finally on it, and there is a challenge in this Chamber, in this country, to explain and articulate briefly why this is such an important moment and why it justifies, in a tension between two of my core principles--one of which is making sure that we work across the aisle and find bipartisan solutions as much as possible and the other that we protect foundational principles--the right to vote--and through that right to make progress toward justice and inclusion in our society--that I choose the latter. We have seen across our country, in recent months and years--ever since Shelby County, a Supreme Court case, blew a hole in the center of the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965, the most powerful civil rights law in the history our country--a whole series of laws at the State and local level eroding and undermining access to the ballot.…”