Political Quotes

“The Senate Democrats' No. 1 priority of this Congress is to pass commonsense legislation; for example, tax cuts and infrastructure investments, all these ideas we have to put Americans back to work and revive our economy. The Republicans in the House, on the other hand, are focused on gutting the safeguards to keep our air clean, make workplaces safe, and check the greed of big Wall Street firms. Never mind that wholesale destruction of measures which save millions of lives and trillions of dollars each year have no chance of passing. Never mind that nonpartisan experts and economists on both sides of the aisle say the so-called jobs agenda will not create a single job. House Republicans have complained we have not taken up and passed these policies, which would risk American lives while doing nothing to improve our economy. They insist we should waste weeks or months on legislation that is both dangerous and proven to fail. But the Senate has too much work to do on legislation that would create jobs without risking American lives to waste time on these ineffectual, purely partisan measures. Our jobs agenda was designed to create jobs, not headlines. In any case, the Senate has passed its own share of legislation--40 pieces, in fact--that have yet to be taken up by the House Republican leaders. The Senate has passed legislation that would stop China from cheating American workers by manipulating its currency, evening the playing field for American exporters and saving jobs.…”