David Perdue: “I say to Senator Daines, I am honored to be here with the other freshmen. I am humbled by the emotion that I have heard…”

“I say to Senator Daines, I am honored to be here with the other freshmen. I am humbled by the emotion that I have heard here in the last half hour. I am humbled to be a part of this freshman class. By the way, we all ran on this issue. We ran on the fact that government was not functioning, that it was dysfunctional. What we see today and why we are here on the floor of the Senate today is to talk about that dysfunction. Let me just share a few highlights of what I have seen in the press in the last few weeks: ``Obama administration again underestimates Islamic State as Afghan affiliate grows into threat.'' ``DC transit police officer charged with aiding ISIS.'' ``ISIS increasingly using women and children to terrorize France.'' ``Five US troops wounded in combat with ISIS in Afghanistan.'' ``Vladimir Putin's rumblings raise new fears of Ukraine conflict.'' ``Russia holds biggest military drill yet in Crimea.'' ``Iran escalates high seas harassment of US Navy.'' ``Iran threatens to destroy Israel with 100,000 missiles.'' ``North Korea conducts fifth nuclear test, claims it has made warheads with `higher strike power.' '' ``South Korea prepares for `worst case scenario' with North Korea.'' These are just a few samples of headlines in the last few weeks alone. What we see right now going on in the Senate is gridlock--the gridlock that is creating the backlash that we are seeing in the Presidential race right now.…”