Political Quotes

“I am terribly disappointed. There is nothing in the resolution that talks about war; in fact, it is quite to the contrary. It is unfortunate. I know, I read the Constitution a few times. My friend says he wants to restate the Constitution. That is a strange version he just stated. I don't see that anyplace in the Constitution. So I am deeply disappointed the Senate was not able to enact additional critical sanctions against the Republic of Iran. The sanctions that came out of the Banking Committee unanimously are a key to our work to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and threatening Israel and jeopardizing the U.S. national security. It is a bipartisan bill which passed unanimously out of the Senate Banking Committee. It would have had much needed new sanctions put in place right now, as we speak. We could pass this legislation this minute if the minority would drop their opposition. We can't afford to delay these sanctions or slow down this process in any way. I am willing to move this bill without amendment also at any time. I say to my friend, whom I respect, I say to my friend, if there are additional things that should be done--I was told this morning that Republicans want to offer amendments to this unanimous consent request. I said, no, because Democrats want to also. But we are satisfied with where we are. This is a wonderful piece of legislation, done on a bipartisan basis in the Banking Committee.…”