Political Quotes

“Mr. President, reserving the right to object, a couple of points. The first point is actually the main point, which is that we had the toughest bipartisan bill on border security in generations on this floor, and when Donald Trump found out how tough it was and how effective it was going to be, he told Senate Republicans to kill it, and that is what they did. So spare me the crocodile tears about the situation at the border. We had the opportunity to fix that, and Donald Trump explicitly said: Don't pass this. Blame me. Blame me. No. 2, my good friend Senator Hagerty, who feels very passionately about this--his quibble is with the Constitution. The Constitution provides that all persons in the United States are counted--all persons. It says nothing about their citizenship status. So if you have a problem with the way the census is conducted, you have to amend the Constitution of the United States--not the law, not the statutory laws of the United States, but the Constitution of the United States. I have lost count of the number of times Republicans have tried and failed to add citizenship questions to the census. We have to see this for what it is--an attempt to reduce the count in immigrant communities. If that sounds like sort of a rhetorical flourish, a little bit too much, let me remind you that it was only a few years ago that the Supreme Court ruled against adding this question. They ruled against it. Why?…”