Political Quotes

“I appreciate my friend's always courteous attitude. I appreciate it very much. The House Republican leadership plan that is now out--and people may look at it--is a plan to advance an extreme piece of legislation and is nothing more than a blatant attack on bipartisanship. The past several days we have been engaged in productive bipartisan negotiations in the Senate. Everyone knows this. We have been working across party lines and making steady progress to achieve an agreement that reopens the government, protects the full faith and credit of our country, and opens talks to put this country on a firm fiscal footing. Everyone needs to know that the measure under discussion in the House is no part of what we have negotiated in the Senate. The debt is here. The deadline is looming. Rating agencies are talking about downgrading us as early as tonight, again. I know I speak for many of us. We have been working in good faith when I say that we felt blindsided by news from the House, but this isn't the first time. Extremist Republicans in the House of Representatives are attempting to torpedo the Senate's bipartisan progress with a bill that can't pass the Senate--can't pass the Senate and won't pass the Senate. The House measure would take away the President's fundamental authority that has been in existence for as long as political science can remember. It has been in place for decade after decade after decade to prevent a catastrophic default on the Nation's bills.…”