Political Quotes

“following leader remarks, the Senate will be in a period of morning business for 1 hour; the Republicans will control the first half, the majority the second half. Following morning business, we will resume consideration of the supplemental appropriations bill. I mentioned last night we are going to have to move forward on this bill. I have been told the Republicans want to have a substitute, and we look forward to whatever that might be. We can set up a series of votes to satisfy those people who want to change this bill in some manner. I would note that in the Northeast--other States but principally New York and New Jersey--there are about 700,000 people who have lost their homes. Tens of thousands of those homes have been destroyed, and other people are still living in very difficult situations. When we had the devastation in the Gulf, we got the aid to those States very quickly. The population of those States--Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama--is very sparse compared to New York and New Jersey. We have to make a decision on this very important legislation before we leave this week, and we are going to do that. I hope everyone would cooperate, but we have to do this. It is very unfair to the millions of people who are suffering as a result of this devastation. We have had some devastating wildfires in the West. They are terribly damaging to the environment and on occasion there is lost life and often there are property losses.…”