Political Quotes

“Mr. President, first, I thank the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Baucus of Montana, who just spoke about the bill before us. If you go to any State in America and ask those who own small businesses what their challenges are today, I will guarantee you that in the top one, two or three items, it is access to credit. This bill, this small business jobs bill, will give access to credit to thousands of businesses across America so they will have money to expand inventory, to expand their business, to expand their employment. Many of us believe, as Senator Baucus has said, small businesses are key to job growth in America. I cannot explain--I cannot explain--why the Republican Party decided to filibuster this to try to stop us from even bringing this bill to the floor over and over and over. We should have passed this bill months ago. It should have been passed on a bipartisan basis. The Small Business Committee is one of the most bipartisan committees in the Senate. Yet they have resisted it. I wish to join Senator Baucus in thanking two Republican colleagues who had the courage--and it took political courage--to step up and say: Put an end to this filibuster. We have to help small business.…”