Political Quotes

“yesterday we had a vote that was very important about health care for children. I thought it was a watershed vote, because it is an issue which very few American families would quarrel with. Children were not insured. They weren't receiving adequate health care. A suggestion was made by Senators Hatch and Kennedy that we have a bipartisan response and raise the cigarette tax, take the money and ensure the children. We lost. We called it for a vote and we lost. Health care for children failed yesterday. So we start this morning with another challenge. If you won't provide health care for children, how about education? Let's test that question before the U.S. Senate. Have we provided in this great Nation the resources for education for our children? Senator Moseley-Braun of Illinois brings that challenge to the floor this morning. She says to the U.S. Senate, let's test this theory. If we are committed as a nation to education, are we committed enough to cut tax loopholes that some of wealthiest Americans enjoy, take the money and put it into building our crumbling schools? She is not talking about carpeting schools in America. Senator Moseley-Braun is not talking about air conditioning for every school in America. She is talking about the basics: safety in the schools and a learning environment so that our children can walk into a clean classroom, heated in the winter, cool in the hot days of summer, and have the ability to learn.”