Political Quotes

“I rise again to urge all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to come together and put serious deficit reduction proposals on the floor for full debate, an open amendment process, a constructive debate and votes and action. That is the way we can move forward and resolve this greatest threat we face as a country, out-of- control Washington spending and debt. We are making a little bit of progress in that regard. After months and months of the distinguished majority leader putting every other issue under the Sun on the floor but spending and debt, we finally forced this central issue to come and be debated. Last week, many of us banded together, conservatives who were pushing for this debate, and said: Enough is enough. We should cancel the July 4 recess, we should block it so we stay and debate the central issue. That is what we did, and we successfully did that. Unfortunately, the majority leader then proposed that we stay here--yes, because we had blocked the recess--but did not put the central issue on the floor and moved yet another topic. We said: No; we are staying to get to this debate, this important issue, the greatest challenge we face right now as a country, and we successfully defeated his move to another topic. Finally, with this little bit of progress, we are on the floor at least talking about the right issue. But we don't yet have a strong, meaningful, underlying proposal to act on. We have a sense-of-the- Senate resolution.…”