Political Quotes

“Mr. President, reserving the right to object, and I will not object to the unanimous consent request because of the importance of this issue to many States in the country, let me close by saying that we need to understand what happened here over the last 72 hours and what we found out. Employees of the Internal Revenue Service made a decision that they were going to specifically target groups who had things like ``tea party'' and the word ``patriot'' in their organization, groups who looked to do things like protect the Constitution of the United States. This is outrageous. There is growing evidence that higher-ups--significant people in the IRS--knew about this and were not disclosing that to Members of Congress. Members of this body were asking the IRS directly: Are you involved in this? Is this happening? They were not giving us information we now know they had. I will not object to the unanimous consent request because of the importance of this issue, but this issue will not and cannot go away because of the importance of it. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the request? Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendments were agreed to, as follows: Amendment No.…”