Political Quotes

“Madam President, many people who follow the Senate may be asking a basic question: What are you doing? Why is it that the Senate is only voting once every other day or why does it seem like it is every other day? Why aren't you in business? If you are here this weekend, can't you have something to do of a positive nature for this country? It is a reasonable question. I would like to describe where we are at this moment and where I hope we will be soon. It started with the President of the United States asking for a defense supplemental bill--a supplemental bill for military spending. There were several major priorities in that major ask by the President. One, of course, was the war in Ukraine and our continued support of the Ukrainian effort to stop the ruthless invasion of Vladimir Putin and the Russians. This has been going on for 2 years. We have been standing by the Ukrainians, and they were running out of money, equipment, and ammunition. President Biden stepped up and said: We are going to provide assistance to Ukraine as part of this emergency supplemental. The same thing is true when it comes to the Israelis fighting the terrorist Hamas after the invasion of their country on October 7. There is money to provide assistance to them in their effort to end that terrorism that had such a dramatic, negative impact on Israel. The third provision relates to Taiwan and the Asian theater. They, too, are our friends and allies and need assistance from the United States.…”