Political Quotes

“I ask to be recognized, and I am pleased to be here with you today. I rise today in strong support of critical bipartisan legislation that will come to the Senate floor--not later this year, later this week, or this month, but later today. It is called the Fire Grants and Safety Act. Importantly, this legislation includes two--not one, but two-- critical pieces of bipartisan legislation that I have been working on with Senator Shelley Capito and a bipartisan coalition of our colleagues--literally, for years. The first part is called the Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy Act. That is a mouthful, but it is also known as the ADVANCE Act. And we coupled that with legislation involving support for our firefighters across the United States of America. Last month, the House of Representatives passed these two bills, not as one but as a package, by an overwhelming bipartisan vote of--get this--393 to 13. Now, we don't pass a lot of bills by margins like that over in the House or the Senate, but today we have an opportunity in the Senate to do something very much the same. Before this evening's vote, though, I want to take a few minutes to highlight the significance of both the Fire Grants and Safety Act as well as the so-called ADVANCE Act.…”