Political Quotes

“Mr. President, reserving the right to object. First and foremost, I thank the Federal employees. I thank anybody who works for the Federal Government for all the hard work they do. I also apologize to them on behalf of the actions of some people in this body who voted not to fund the government just a couple of days ago. I hope we get to a point where we can fund the government and move on and resolve our differences on very important issues, the DACA issue being one that is very personally important to me. As a practical matter, I think we will take care of the Federal employees because they work hard, and they deserve that. What I will tell you is the effect of these CRs--and something that I will say is one of the reasons why I hate these continuing resolutions. Here is what happens every time a CR is threatened to occur or a shutdown is threatened to occur. One of the reasons the short-term CRs make no sense to me is because if you did a 1-day CR, then the good news is, everybody would come to work tomorrow, and then tomorrow afternoon, you say: You are probably not going to come back on Tuesday or the 3-day, where you say: The good news is you are going to be here on Wednesday, but the bad news is, we are going to have to furlough you again on Thursday. At the end of the day, we need to fund the government.…”