Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I come to the floor to express my disappointment that the majority leader is asking to rule XIV the bipartisan Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act. I must ask the majority leader, what happened? Where is the bipartisanship part? Where is the bipartisanship that we have expressed and that I expressed this morning on the floor and last night at AIPAC? I ask again, what happened to putting aside political posturing and partisanship? What happened to the majority leader's pledge in January to ``decentralize power in the Senate'' and ``open up the legislative process''? "We need to return to regular order,'' he said. I agree with him. Let's do it. Let's return to regular order. Frankly, this is not what was intended, and it is certainly against my better judgment, against procedure, against any understanding we might have had to take the politics out of our effort to establish congressional oversight of any nuclear agreement with Iran. I am more than disappointed; I am pretty outraged. I said last night and again this morning that I join Chairman Corker and Senators Graham, Kaine, Donnelly, Heitkamp, King, Nelson, Ayotte, Rubio, McCain, and Risch in introducing bipartisan oversight legislation to ensure that Congress has a chance to review the deal before it goes into effect and to oversee its compliance after it goes into effect. And now, putting any bipartisanship aside, we are back to politics as usual. The only way to make this work is to work together.…”