Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I will just start out by saying it is good to see you. It is good to be back. I hope you had a good break. We have business to do--serious business to do. Before we took our recess around election time, we closed off by passing, I think, a 99- to-1 vote here and a unanimous vote over in the House. It is a major water infrastructure bill that Senator Barrasso and I and our staffs have worked on with a number of our colleagues. We are back here today to do some more good work. I am grateful to everyone who has had a part in that. I rise in support of the Coast Guard reauthorizing bill and to urge our colleagues to vote yes on the pending cloture motion and on final passage of this legislation tomorrow. Ensuring that our Coast Guard, comprised of nearly 90,000 men and women across our country, has the resources to do its important work is incredibly important. The Coast Guard was established at the behest of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, who is known more recently for the musical, but he was actually behind the establishment of the Coast Guard all those years ago. This is one of his greatest hits, if you will. He played a crucial role in our country, and so has the Coast Guard--including in my State of Delaware--from the very birth of our Nation, and my guess is also in Wisconsin, where our Presiding Officer is from.…”