Political Quotes

“before offering a motion, I first want to thank our ranking member from Oregon, who is so dedicated, so passionate, so smart. He works tirelessly every day. It is such a pleasure to serve with him. He is someone who has a distinguished career of fighting for middle-class families, for working people, for the right kinds of things. He came from working with the Gray Panthers and senior citizens, and he brings that to work every single day, and I thank him for that. I want to stress before offering a motion that he and other colleagues--Senator Casey, Senator Brown, Senator Carper, whom we had hoped would be joining us, and I know is trying to as well--have all stressed the fact, first of all, that we are at the 1-year anniversary of this President. For the first time in a number of years, we have the House, the Senate, and the White House all controlled by Republicans, and over and over again, what has gotten the priority? What has gotten done? Things for the wealthiest Americans and people with really big lobbyists, special interest lobbyists. That is what gets done over and over again. So when, in fact, the funding ran out, not only for children's healthcare but also for community health centers and other important priorities that needed to get done for rural hospitals, ambulances, special diabetes programs, and other things, those have been shoved aside over and over and over again with people waiting and waiting and waiting. Why?…”