Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I would say to the Senator from Missouri that while this Senator is most appreciative that he and Senator Murray have come forth in a bipartisan fashion with about half of the funding that this Senator--also in a bipartisan proposal, since my colleague from Florida, Senator Rubio, is the sponsor of this amendment with this Senator, I would point to the Senator's own words commending the administration that they recognized that this was crisis enough to go in and borrow $580 million from the Ebola fund to get started, since we couldn't get Congress off dead center until now. I commend Senator Blunt and Senator Murray for their action. I commend the leadership for being willing to put this on the T-HUD bill, appropriations bill, but for the Senator to suggest that he raised that point that it was such an emergency--$589 million--but the Appropriations Committee proposal only replaces the $589 million that has been taken from the Ebola fund. It replaces, replenishes it only with $88 million instead of $589 million. By the way, the news just broke. There is another outbreak of Ebola. This Senator is not here to talk about Ebola. This Senator is on the floor to talk about another health care medical emergency, of which there is well over 100 cases in this Senator's State of Florida. Senator Rubio and I are desperately trying to help. Before Senator Blunt leaves, I wish to say one other thing. He mentioned that we need to control the vector. What does that mean?…”