Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I thank Senator Mikulski. She has been joined by Senator Shaheen, both of whom have been leading this very important bill to pass this funding for Homeland Security. I thought the points Senator Mikulski made were so well taken about the fact that there has been a new development since we left this Chamber; that is, that the courts are taking on some of the immigration provisions our colleagues have been trying to attach to this bill. I would hope they could look at this in a fresh way now and see that we should just simply allow this bill to go forward while the courts are considering this matter. To me, that is the answer. I do not think they should see it--our colleagues on the other side--as a concession. It is simply a fact. It is something that has changed. So I come to the floor to talk about the importance of the Mikulski-Shaheen bill. The critical importance of this funding has been driven home in the last few days in my State, the State of Minnesota. Just this weekend the terrorist group al-Shabaab released a video encouraging attacks on shopping malls throughout the world--a shopping mall in Minnesota, the Mall of America, a shopping mall in Canada, in Edmonton, a shopping mall in London. I do not think we could ever think they would be limited in their threats when it comes to shopping malls in America. This is the same terrorist group that actually carried out a major attack on a shopping mall in Kenya, killing more than 60 people.…”