Political Quotes

“I am terribly disappointed, Mr. President. We have tried our utmost to be fair and reasonable, but it is obvious there is no effort here to solve the problem with small business across this country. The spending caps in the Sessions amendment we voted on five times, at least. Anyway, we have voted on it quite a few times. Nuclear loan guarantees. This is an amendment that is suggesting there are not enough loan guarantees for constructing nuclear powerplants. And that is probably true, but that has nothing to do with this bill. That is not small business. We are talking about tens of billions of dollars--tens of billions of dollars for one plant, and we are talking about five or six plants. So we are talking about maybe $50 billion. That has nothing to do with small business. The McCain amendment on border security. We know that is the place they always go--``they'' meaning my friends on the other side of the aisle--is to border security. It is interesting to note that on the supplemental appropriations bill, that was one of the amendments that was on the bill we got from the House, and we agreed to do that. We said: Let's do that. The money is there. Let's do it. There was an objection from the Republicans. So I feel so disappointed for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is small businesses in America need this help. The Small Business Administration needs what we are doing here, and community banks need what we are doing here. I also feel badly for another reason.…”