Political Quotes

“We are now 26 days into the longest government shutdown in American history, and 800,000 workers--800,000 Americans--are going without pay. Half of them are working anyway. Let's be very clear about how we got into this mess. The Senate unanimously passed a bill to open the government right before the holidays. The vote was 100 to 0. There was such jubilance on this floor that, literally, Members of the Senate were singing Christmas carols. Yet 2 weeks ago, the House, doing its job, then passed a bill to reopen the government. They sent six bills over to the Senate. This body needs to hold a vote on that legislation and send it to the President and ask him to sign it. The real obstacle to ending this shutdown is in the White House. The President is holding the American people hostage over his vanity project on the southern border and peddling his usual propaganda to distract from a crisis of his own making. The President has said that ``most of the workers not getting paid are Democrats,'' as if that is true or if that should matter. He has said that ``many of the people that we're talking about . . . agree with what we're doing.'' It has been said that the workers have said to ``stay out until you get the funding for the wall.'' Well, that is contrary to what we have been hearing and what I have been hearing. Last week, for example, I heard from a woman by the name of Trisha.…”