Political Quotes

“I thank the Senator from Washington for her 21st time in coming to the floor of the Senate and asking the Republicans to join us in a conference committee to resolve budget differences between the House and the Senate. Twenty-one times Senator Murray has come to this floor simply asking to negotiate, and the Republicans, who have been arguing that we don't negotiate, turned her down 21 times--the latest by the senior Senator from Texas. The junior Senator from Texas shut down the government over the notion of defunding ObamaCare, and now the senior Senator from Texas has said he objects to going to a conference committee to resolve our differences, Republicans and Democrats, between the House and the Senate. If we are going to restore this Senate to the orderly process, what the Senator from Washington has asked for is very basic--open the government. This morning the Chaplain of the Senate started by acknowledging the five families who were notified, after they had lost a military member--a son, a husband, a brother in Afghanistan over the weekend--he noted that in their bereavement they were being denied the basic benefits this government gives to these grieving families after they have lost someone in uniform. The Chaplain of the Senate said it this morning: Enough is enough. This notion that closing down our government and keeping it closed is somehow acceptable political conduct is outrageous.…”