Political Quotes

“Madam President, Senate Democrats have stepped up and passed legislation that will make it easier for American families to afford health insurance coverage and prescription drugs and lower energy costs and boost domestic job creation in the growing clean energy sector. We have done so while reducing the deficit and without raising taxes on families and small businesses. The Inflation Reduction Act--IRA--tackles climate change, makes the Tax Code fairer, and invests in long-overdue environmental justice programs. This is an historic bill, and polling indicates that large majorities of Americans support its major provisions. While a simple majority of Senators can pass a budget reconciliation bill, there was nothing to prevent our Republican colleagues from joining us in supporting this measure to lower essential costs for American families and enhance our economic and national security. These are policies that all Senators and all Members of Congress should embrace, and this legislation contains many bipartisan policies. Reconciliation does not have to be a partisan process. Just in the past year, the Senate passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act-- IIJA--the CHIPS + Science semiconductor manufacturing bill, the Honoring Our PACT Act, and Treaty Document No. 117-3, which contains Protocols to the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949 on the Accession of the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden, with strong bipartisan majorities.…”