Political Quotes

“yesterday afternoon, the Senate Parliamentarian ruled that long overdue immigration reform could not be included in the budget reconciliation process. I respect the Parliamentarian very much, but I respectfully disagree. The pathway to citizenship has a substantial and direct budgetary impact, which makes it appropriate to be included in a reconciliation bill. The last measure which we put before the Parliamentarian literally was a date change. That was the sum and substance of the amendment--a date change that had a budgetary impact in it. We were not creating new categories of immigration. We were not creating any new laws other than the date change. I want to say to all of the Dreamers and immigrants and all of the mixed-status families who are desperately following the situation: We are not giving up, and you shouldn't give up either. America needs you, and I will keep my promise to keep working on this as long as it is my honor to serve in the Senate. H.R. 5305 Madam President, on another matter, I can remember when ``certainty'' was the Republican refrain on tax cuts and the economy. They used to say businesses and families need certainty. That is what the Republicans used to say when they wanted to pass more tax cuts for wealthy people. American businesses couldn't invest or hire new workers and American families couldn't plan for their futures without certainty. We heard that repeatedly on the Republican side of the aisle.…”