Political Quotes

“sometimes when I hear floor speeches down here, I think of my wife, whom I love dearly, and I will be married to her for 39 years in June, but for about the first 5 or 10 years of our relationship, I would do something stupid, and she would rightfully get mad. And then I felt like I had to hear every other stupid thing I had done since I had met her 5 or 10 years before. There are a lot of very valid points being made here today, and very few of them have anything to do with what is ahead of us this weekend. To try and explain where we are here, Senator Collins has done an extraordinary job with having her hand on the rudder of getting five appropriations bills ready to go to the President's desk. We have an agreement that was between the President and the Democrats that is before us. The Homeland Security bill has had to be severed for a variety of reasons--I will get to that too--and we are trying to address that through a continuing resolution. We are trying to decide if that is 2 weeks, 4 weeks, or 6 weeks. That continuing resolution, incidentally, because of the way we fund the government here, would actually provide more money during the CR than we have in the underlying appropriation that we hope to pass someday. But the reason we are not moving forward today doesn't have anything to do with the Democrats. It has to do with a handful of Republicans who are refusing to let us move forward.”