Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we have now voted three times-- once on Monday, the second time on Tuesday, and a third time today-- merely trying to get to the Wall Street financial reform bill. Each time we have been blocked from being able to proceed because we can't muster 60 votes to cut off the debate to get to the bill. The Republican leadership remains united in opposition to bringing up the bill, at a time in which we have just seen a display of extraordinarily intense, shall we say, arrogance on the part of executives at a major Wall Street firm in the way they conducted themselves in front of Senator Carl Levin's investigation subcommittee yesterday in a hearing. It is rather extraordinary that the Republican leadership is not letting us come up with the bill so we can get it out here, debate it, and amend it. This Senator has a number of amendments that I would like to offer in order to, as we say, perfect the Banking Committee's bill. But we can't even get to that. I don't know what the thinking of the Republican leadership is that they would do this, especially in light of the fact that the American people want some changes with the way investments are handled on Wall Street. They want to see some movement. They want to see some action.…”