Political Quotes

“Mr. President, in reserving the right to object and just very quickly, look, we are at an impasse here. The problem is that the Senator from Missouri is asking for something that he knows I can't agree to, and he is blocking the Comptroller of the U.S. Navy because he is mad about something else. I mean, it is very clear what he is mad about, and he has come in with his set speech about what he is mad about. The fundamental point here is that this is not the way to be a Member of the U.S. Senate. I remember--I guess it was a couple of years ago-- he came down and said: I ask unanimous consent that we pass my bill on section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. I said: If you want to get a hearing, go try to get a hearing. Introduce a bill. Get a Democratic cosponsor. Make the case. Work it through the committee process. He has failed on that, and he has failed on this issue. He doesn't have other people with him, so he is pitching a fit. And the bummer about this is that it is not me who suffers; it is not one party or the other who suffers; it is the taxpayer. In this instance, it is the Department of the Navy that will lack a Comptroller because Josh Hawley is not getting his way. I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). The objection is heard. Is there objection to the original request?”