Political Quotes

“I say thank you to my colleague from Washington. Mr. President, the level of frustration we have over this issue is unparalleled. We hear platitudes in the Senate. They usually start with: We believe in the will of the people. Let's do the will of the people. Guess what. We had this debate. We had the debate about whether we should have an entity called the Export-Import Bank. We had that debate. It was long fought. We shut down the bank for the first time in 60 years. We shut down the bank, stopping exports for the United States of America, costing jobs in the United States of America. We won that fight, and we didn't win it by a little. We didn't win it by just a margin. We won supermajorities--supermajorities--in the Senate and supermajorities in the House. When we were told the House would never pass a stand-alone bill, they passed a stand-alone bill by 70 percent--70 percent--of the vote. Doesn't that tell you the people of this country should have a vote through their elected representatives? Today do you know what is stopping that vote, the will of the people to have this entity, beyond all of the arguments for why this entity is critically important? One person--one person, for whatever reason. This is why people have lost faith with their government.…”