Political Quotes

“it is not necessary to go into great detail about the past, but it is important to talk about the past so we understand what is going on now and what the future holds. The biggest change coming from the Republican majority is what the Democratic minority has done. We have cooperated. We are not in the business of filibustering everything. During the first 6 years of the Obama administration, the Republicans initiated more than 600 filibusters. They filibustered everything. As an example, we tried to do the Energy bill for 5 years. Each time we tried, it was brought to a standstill by the Republicans. We have a Republican bill that we worked on. It is the same bill we did with Senator Shaheen in the past with some additions to it. What happened to that bill is that it has gone to the dark hole in the House. They have stripped everything out of it that we had done. It is gone. We have done our utmost to cooperate. For my friend to talk about this Republican Senate that has done so much, he would have tremendous difficulty finding any one thing that we didn't try to do--any one thing. I talked about energy. It doesn't matter what it was, it was filibustered--I repeat--more than 600 times. The record will never be broken, I hope, as it has been a real detriment to our country and the U.S. Senate. For my friend to come and talk about how great the Senate is, is really absurd.…”