Political Quotes

“soon, around the 12:30 hour or on one of the seven votes this afternoon, we are going to be voting on cloture on the STOCK Act. I have 45 minutes allotted to me to speak about the disappointment I have with the way this has been handled and why I think the parliamentary procedure is wrong and why the whole process irritates me. Bipartisanship happens to be alive and well in Washington, DC, where most of our constituents believe it is never working. Earlier this week, we had the Republican majority leader of the House and the Democratic majority leader of the Senate--that is bipartisanship--work together to thwart the will of 60 Senators and 286 Members of Congress. The end result is, as well-meaning as the people behind this maneuver might be--the end result is that 60 Members of the Senate are going to be denied an opportunity to pursue what they had previously voted for and 286 Members of the House of Representatives, cosponsoring the language of my amendment, are not going to have a chance to do what 286 Members of the House want to do. As I said, this is bipartisanship, but it is not the kind of bipartisan cooperation, intended or not, this Nation deserves. I will not ascribe motives to anyone in this body, but I know that today's action only serves the desires of obscure and powerful Wall Street interests, and it undercuts the will of the overwhelming majority of Congress I just described.…”