Political Quotes

“all Americans face deadlines. Ask any student or any working professional, and they will tell you they have to meet deadlines to be successful. It is part of life. Senate Republicans, though, seem to reject the idea of finishing work on time. Instead, the Republican leader has repeatedly taken the Senate to the brink. Already the first few months of this year, Republicans have botched deadlines for funding the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court--that was a real debacle-- and, most recently, the Export-Import Bank, which is now out of business. There were 165,000 people working as a result of the Bank who now--if not gone and looking for employment, they will have to do it very soon because the Republicans are boasting they were able to kill this business-oriented program that has been successful all over the world, allowing us to export things that we would not have been able to had that law not been in effect. As a result of our not doing things, other countries--China and other countries--are now picking up the slack where Ex-Im Bank worked before. There is a lot of business being lost for the American people, and it is very unfortunate because, again, Republicans are not meeting deadlines. Every one of those crises is accompanied by consequences that hurt our country: lost productivity, a volatile stock market, and lapses in national security.…”