Political Quotes

“I appreciate the cooperation between Senator Sanders and Senator Enzi in our arriving at the point we are now. The Republicans have a totally different vision of what the country is and should be than we have, but the debate between these two good Senators has been civil. It has been very polite. It is the way things should happen around here. So I appreciate that very much. The Republican budget makes clear the priorities of the Republicans. Republicans would get two-thirds of their cuts from low-income Americans, but they would not plug one single loophole for corporations or the rich--and I mean the mega rich--not a penny. They would double down on harmful sequestration, which is when automatic cuts occur across the board. We know how disastrous this has been. For the 1 year it was in effect--take, for example, the National Institutes of Health--almost $2 billion they lost that 1 year. On the floor is the senior Senator from the State of Illinois. I have heard him speak here on the floor about what a difficult time the people at NIH are having because they don't have enough money to do basic research. The sequestration that was put upon us last time caused the NIH to stop their research on a universal flu vaccine. Hundreds of thousands of people die around the world every year, and tens of thousands of people die every year in the United States because of flu. They were close to having a universal flu vaccine that would take care of this.…”