Political Quotes

“the remarks my friend, the distinguished Republican leader, made regarding the energy crisis facing us are, as has been this past week, Orwellian. Everyone listening to what he said understands the direct opposite has happened. Everyone knows we are not doing legislation because the Republicans will not let us. There are 51 Democrats and 49 Republicans, a closely divided Senate. The Republicans have decided they are going to let us do nothing, and that is what they are doing, letting us do nothing. We want to legislate; they want to obstruct. Let's take the three bills we dealt with this past week. Global warming: No, they would not let us legislate on that bill. We offered two amendments, three amendments, five amendments, eight amendments, relevant, germane--nothing. They did not want to legislate, and we knew that was the case because as we read into the Record several times, there was a piece of work that came on e-mail from the Republicans who are devising the strategy for the Republicans in the Senate, and they said in that memo that there is no legislation going to take place here; we are going to play political games. ``Political games'' were their words, and that is what they did. As we have been here--the Senate opened 20 minutes ago--global warming has gotten worse, not better. It is time we decided to take some hard decisions and realize we cannot continue to take all this carbon out of the Earth and put it into the sky.”