Political Quotes

“I can't let the question rhetorically hang there. I would say to my colleague, first of all, for all of us who have been fighting this issue on a bipartisan basis--I think his bill has only got Republican sponsors on it, a few--that we have been fighting this, and this is a continuous fight. And, yes, every life that is lost is a life that we mourn. But what would I say to them? I would say, well, if we get the Fentanyl Results Act legislation passed, which passed the committee on a bipartisan basis, we would have a bipartisan approach toward dealing with this. I appreciate that my colleague has declared war on fentanyl, but just because he has declared war doesn't mean that his view as to how you meet the challenge is the ultimate result, is the ultimate solution. So in good faith, I offer our colleague to work with us. But you can't end up making the Senate the Committee of the Whole. If we want to do that, good, let's abolish all of our committees, and let's all sit here and we can bring up legislation after legislation that was just introduced, where nobody has a chance to read it and nobody has a chance to understand the unintended consequences, as noble as the intent might be. But that is what my colleague has done on more than one occasion now. He introduces a piece of legislation and, days after, comes to the floor to seek its approval.…”