Political Quotes

“we rise today after a long night last night--a night that I think could produce some fruits today or tomorrow or soon, I hope, because, on behalf of the just over 1 million Montanans and families across this country, and I believe a vast majority of the people in this body, we need to put this shutdown to an end. Folks, whether it be a welder in Butte or a teacher in Billings or a sugar beet farmer in Sidney or a mill worker in Columbia Falls, they have all told me, and they will continue to tell me, that this body is incredibly dysfunctional and that Congress is incredibly dysfunctional. We ought to break that. We ought to start working together. We ought to start listening to one another. We shouldn't be taking off the right side of the Earth nor the left side of the Earth. We should work in the middle for policies that work for America. The budget may be the most important of those policies that work for America. It has been 112 days now since our budget ran out--the end of September of this year. We have responded to that budget running out by passing four short-term continuing resolutions, we call them--stop-gap measures, bandaids, if you will, kicking the can down the road; it is described by a lot of different methods--to fund the budget. That has resulted in costing the taxpayers additional dollars and incredible inefficiencies, and it is caused by the Members of this body not doing their job and leadership not doing their job. Enough is enough.…”