Political Quotes

“I rise today to speak about the critical role that U.S. attorneys play in keeping America safe from the scourge of drugs--like opioids, fentanyl--gun violence and violent crime. Why are we on the floor? We are on the floor because one Senator has decided to stop the appointment of U.S. attorneys for the Department of Justice across the United States. He has picked four States--one is a pretty red State, Mississippi; California; Ohio, his own home State; and my State of Illinois--to stop the U.S. attorneys from being approved by the U.S. Senate. This is a pattern. The Senator from Alabama, Senator Tuberville, has stopped 300 military officers--career officers--from getting a promotion for more than 6 months. Many of these career officers, women and men, have fought in combat and risked their lives for America. We salute them every Memorial Day. We say that we love our veterans, and I certainly do. I'm sure the Senator from Ohio does too. And yet they are being treated so shabbily here in the U.S. Senate that the leading veterans organization in the United States of America is protesting what this Alabama Republican Senator is doing. He is stopping 300 of the best, highest ranked individuals who will lead our military in the world from being approved in the U.S. Senate for 6 months--more than 6 months. Does he have a specific complaint about any one of them? No. Just, categorically, this is his political approach: Let's stop all the military from a promotion.…”