Political Quotes

“Reserving the right to object, I--what is missing from this list is the Uighur Forced Labor Prevention Act. In a moment, you are going to hear that it has this procedural problem--blue slips. For anyone who is not familiar with the lingo around here, that means that it is going to generate revenue, and therefore it has to originate in the House. That is what you are going to hear in a moment. Here is what is so interesting about it. About, I don't know, 4, 5, 6 weeks ago, that very bill passed by unanimous consent in this very Senate. This bill doesn't have a blue slip problem. It has a bunch of corporations who are making stuff in Xinjiang Province problem. That is what the problem is here. So everyone is aware--everyone here is aware, I hope. In the Xinjiang Province of China, Uighur Muslims are put into forced labor camps where they work as slaves--something that this administration and the previous one termed as ``genocide.'' They work as slaves making products, and there are American companies that are sourcing goods that end up on the shelves in this country. It is, in fact, almost certain that in this very Chamber there is some product that was manufactured by slave labor in China. We passed that bill in the Senate by unanimous consent. Not a single person objected to it. There was no blue slip problem then. Now all of a sudden there is. This is because there is a bunch--that is why they are killing it in the House.…”