Political Quotes

Mr. President, we are not playing a Social Security card. We don't believe you should play with Social Security, and that is why many of us opposed the chained CPI. Everybody knows what chained CPI is. That is Washington talk that would…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Jessica Armstrong, a legislative fellow from the Department of Defense and my military legislative assistant, be allowed floor privileges during the consideration of S. 2943, the Defense…

Mr. President, it has been 3 months since the administration sent Congress the emergency funding request for Zika, and Congress hasn't acted on it. But today we have an opportunity to do so, and I hope we do. We will have pending before…

The Senator from Oregon is absolutely correct. This would be funding that would begin October 1. Given no cute tricks around shutdown and slam-down politics as we go into the fall--that we could actually move our appropriations--this would…