Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I regret that our colleagues have objected to a consent request to go to some of the most critical issues the country is facing--to have the Finance Committee meet on trade agreements that could expand markets and ultimately create jobs in America, and that is what we need in America--to create jobs. On the question of whether there should be a limited use of force, the Congress, and particularly the Senate, should speak, and not being able to do that is pretty amazing to me. So I hear a lot about wanting to get the people's work done, but then I hear objections to trying to move to get it done. It is pretty outrageous. I came originally to the floor after this vote to thank President Obama for, yesterday, calling and echoing my call to end subsidies for Big Oil. It is a call that received a bipartisan vote in the Senate, a bipartisan majority vote in the Senate, but, of course, it did not pass because of our colleagues' insistence on a filibuster or a supermajority amount. But it is time that our friends on the other side of the aisle put the interests of taxpayers ahead of Big Oil and allow these wasteful subsidies to finally end. As the President said, we have strategies to reduce the deficit, such as my legislation to cut oil subsidies, that are already introduced and ready to go. All we have to do is pass it.…”