Political Quotes

“last week something wonderful and unusual happened here in the Senate: We passed a worthy piece of legislation with a nearly unanimous vote. On the eve of Veterans Day, we honored this Nation's service men and women by passing bipartisan legislation to spur hiring of this country's nearly 900,000 out-of-work veterans. Two hundred fifty thousand of these unemployed veterans became members of the Armed Services because of the global fight on terror basically in the last 10 years. I trust our action last week meant as much, or more, than our words of thanks and praise for these dedicated men and women who serve us so well. But the Senate has much more work to do this work period, this week and into next week, if necessary. I hope that same spirit of cooperation will hold during this next few days. The Senate has much more work to be done, as I have indicated, because we have work that is essential to the functioning of our government. As we continue to focus on the efforts to create jobs and get our economy moving again, we must also pass appropriations bills, which is part of our yearly responsibility. This week, we will consider an appropriations package that includes Energy and Water, Financial Services, and State and Foreign Operations. We need cooperation to move this important piece of legislation. The legislative tree will not be filled, but we need to agree on the way forward. We need to have some responsible way to move forward on these amendments.…”