Political Quotes

“I want to commend both of our leaders, Leader McConnell and Leader Reid, for coming to the floor and agreeing to a path forward to fully fund Homeland Security, and I want to speak for a moment about how critical this is and how really--if we cannot get the House of Representatives to agree, if they are not willing to move forward and support this path--we have actually not one shutdown but the possibility of two different kinds of shutdowns that will happen within 3 days. I am talking about the fact there are 3 days left before the funding for the Department of Homeland Security expires--on February 27, at the end of the day on Friday. We are in a situation where those who protect us from terror threats all around us will be in a situation where they either aren't at work or are working without pay. We will be working with pay but they won't be working with pay, which of course is an outrageous situation for us to put them in. Every week we know there is a new terrorist threat. That is literally true now, and it is shocking, as we turn on the television and we read the papers and listen to the radio. The most recent threat we know is from al-Shabaab, a Somali terrorist group with ties to Al Qaeda. A video appeared this last week where we know they called for an attack at the Mall of America near Minneapolis, as well as at other shopping centers in the United States and Canada and Great Britain.…”