Political Quotes

“I was going to talk about the tornadoes, but I will take a moment to respond to my colleague from Utah. There are Members objecting to going to regular order on the budget, and he is one of them. The Senator from Utah himself is objecting to regular order, which would allow us to go to conference on the budget. He was one of the critics when he was running for office. He made numerous statements while he was on his way to becoming a Senator by saying that the Senate and the House needed to have a budget. Well, the House has passed a budget, the Senate has passed a budget. Yet the Senator from Utah is the one--along with the Senator from Kentucky, and I understand earlier today, the Senator from Arizona, Senator McCain--objecting to going to conference to resolve the differences. I know the Senator from Utah has read the Constitution, just as I have. The Constitution and the laws that created the Senate of the United States give great strength to the minority--and he is in the minority. However, nowhere in the Constitution does it say one Senator from one State has the right to write the rules and laws for the whole country. I read it lots of times, and I have never seen that. Evidently that is what the Senator from Utah wants. He said if we would just do what he wants, we could proceed. Well, I have news for him and the Senators who are objecting. It is not about what they individually want. It is collectively what we want.…”