Political Quotes

“This morning in the Senate Chamber, we had a motion to bring up a bill, which President Bush is asking for, on foreign operations, part of which is to deal with infectious disease surveillance, $175 million, and $255 million to feed these Afghan refugees who are literally dying on our TV screens every night, and we had a party-line vote: The Democrats saying go along with the President, move the bill, give him the money and the resources, do what is important for America, and the Republicans, with the exception of one Senator, Mr. Stevens who voted ``present,'' all voted not to go to the President's bill on foreign operations appropriations. The reason they have decided to hold back the money for this emergency aid to feed, clothe, and shelter the Afghan refugees is because the number of judges coming out of the Judiciary Committee is not coming out fast enough; is that the argument?”