Political Quotes

“Following leader remarks, the Senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to H.R. 933, the continuing resolution legislation. Last night I filed cloture on a motion to proceed to this most important legislation. We are now in the midst of another filibuster. If no agreement is reached, the cloture vote will be tomorrow morning. The Ryan Budget Mr. President, yesterday Americans got their first look at this year's Ryan Republican budget. It turns out it looks like last year's Ryan Republican budget. I wasn't the only one who said: Gee whiz, not again. Here is the headline from Bloomberg News: Ryan Budget Replays Republican Hits. One Washington Post reporter compared the release of the not-so-new and certainly not improved Ryan Republican budget to the movie ``Groundhog Day,'' where Bill Murray relives his least favorite holiday over and over and over. Remember, this is the third Ryan Republican budget. This is what the Washington Post also wrote: The unrepentant reprisal of the same fiscal vision that was decisively repudiated last fall is bound to attract notice. Indeed, this is the same budget plan we saw from Congressman Ryan last year and the year before that. Even the name is the same. If anything, this new version is even more extreme than the last two Ryan Republican budget proposals--proposals that sought to end the Medicare guarantee and raise taxes on middle-class families, all the while handing out more tax breaks to the wealthy.…”