Political Quotes

“following leader remarks, the Senate will be in a period of morning business for an hour, Republicans will control the first half and the majority will control the final half. Following morning business, the Senate will resume consideration of H.R. 3832. Later today, the Senate will complete action on the GSP and TAA bill. There will be up to five rollcall votes in relation to amendments and passage of this bill. I will work with the Republican leader to set a time it is convenient to do that. FEMA More important, now that we have arrived at an agreement on how to move the trade adjustment assistance out of here, is what is going to happen in the House. Last week, something all too rare these days happened in this Chamber; we had some bipartisanship. Ten Republicans joined Democrats in voting to give FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the money they need to fund their important operations for the foreseeable future. The House bill would have jeopardized the Agency's ability to help Americans affected by tragedy to put their lives back together, but that is what the House did. What the House did last night was so wrong. We passed a bill a few months ago that would take care of funding for the rest of this year, from October 1 to October 1. Rather than doing what we had agreed upon, and the American people saw us work for months to agree upon, they reneged on that deal.…”