Political Quotes

“In reserving the right to object, the question I would have asked him is how he voted on the PACT Act. I don't know the answer to it. I think he voted against it. I am not sure. The other question I was going to ask him is has he ever voted for a disaster supplemental that wasn't offset. Those were the two questions I was going to ask. I will find it out later on. Look, our State motto is ``Esse Quam Videri.'' It says, ``To be rather than to seem.'' This is a disingenuous offer to amend my bill. Let me tell you why. Maybe it will even be in a fundraising campaign later this week: ``I am fighting to dismantle the Green New Deal, and Tillis objected to doing that today.'' This bill, if it got amended, has no prayer. I came to the Senate to make a difference, not to make a point. I get the point. There are a lot of things in the Inflation Reduction Act and in the Green New Deal that need to be clawed back, and I look forward to, under President Trump's leadership, having that vote. I assume that Senator Paul knows how to count votes. He has to know that he doesn't have the votes to get this bill done if it is amended. To be rather than to seem. I am focused on getting North Carolina back on track and not playing a game on this Senate floor. I am going to object to this, Mr. President, in a minute because it is a game. We never fund disaster supplementals because we know that people are hurting. You take that case to Ukraine, to Asheville. You take it to Burnsville.…”