Political Quotes

“as I said, we worked all weekend long with the Senator from Pennsylvania's office, and we are happy to continue to work with him to see if we can come to a common ground. His original amendment that we were discussing did include the elimination of democracy promotion, and that is something that China would only be too happy to achieve. I understand that in this amendment--which I have not had the full opportunity, nor my staff, to fully analyze--he may have excluded that. That is another step forward. So we are happy to engage with the Senator and see if we can come to common ground beyond today. My goal, however, is to join the Senator in punishing countries that are ultimately allowing this to happen, but not to do it in a way that doesn't punish the country but actually denies those whom we are trying to help inside of those countries in the pursuit of our own interests. So if we come to that point, I hope we can ultimately come to an agreement. With that, I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Pennsylvania.”