Political Quotes

On the recordFebruary 13, 2012
The Senate approved the Budget Control Act on a bipartisan basis with 74 Senators voting for it.
Said by
Carl Levin
Democratic · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Levin notes the bipartisan support for the Budget Control Act in the Senate.

Share

More from Carl Levin

Feb 6, 2020

Woman, the real motives are revealed in the rhetoric. This is an attack on unions themselves. The way that our labor relations have been organized since the 1930s when the Wagner Act was passed is that private-sector labor relations are…

govinfo.gov
Mar 9, 2021

This amendment seeks to hinder workers' First Amendment right to assemble peacefully to better their workplace situation. No worker wants to go on strike. No worker wants to forgo a paycheck so they can walk a picket line, often in the…

govinfo.gov
Mar 18, 2021

I thank Chairman Meeks and Ranking Member McCaul for their support in bringing this resolution to the floor today. Last month, the Burmese military, Tatmadaw, staged a coup and quashed Burma's fragile experiment with democracy. Burma had…

govinfo.gov
Jul 23, 2020

I rise on behalf of the public schools in Macomb and Oakland Counties. In between votes earlier this week, I hosted a Zoom call with the superintendents in my district. I was struck by how much they figured out in such a short time about…

govinfo.gov

Other voices in this conversation