Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I come here today to talk about Police Week, but before I do--I had the opportunity to listen to my colleague from Nevada push an important point here, and it is not lost on me and the general public watching this, thinking how crazy this argument is, at the end of the day. I just heard my good colleague Senator Tuberville basically say he is not opposed--he actually would vote for the individual Senator Rosen just said she was asking him to support, their promotion. He said he would do it. The only thing that is holding him up is that, instead of what we have traditionally done in this body through unanimous consent for promotions for the men and women in our military, which is a procedure we do all the time, he is forcing it to go to a floor vote. It makes no sense. It makes no sense to me. It makes no sense to the American public who are watching this and clearly is an abuse of the use of the powers we have as Senators in this body. So I just have to point that out because this is what we are dealing with, unfortunately, at times when the American public just wants us to work together to move forward. The men and women in the military seeking promotions--that is what this is about, and we should be supporting them because they are the ones standing guard, protecting us and our national security. So I just have to point that out, that the craziness sometimes in this body I see is just nonsensical.”