Political Quotes

“the essential Department of Homeland Security faces a shutdown in less than 48 hours. At 12:01 a.m. Saturday morning the government will be forced to shut down the most essential part of our government set up to protect the homeland. It is really unthinkable that America is less than 2 days away from letting its guard down in the midst of such rampant global terrorism. Yesterday, three Brooklyn men were arrested for joining ISIS. FBI Director Comey said yesterday that his agency is investigating suspected ISIS supporters in every State--all 50 States. As Republican Congressman Peter King said: We can't allow DHS not [to] be funded. People think we're crazy. There are terrorist attacks all over the world, and we're talking about closing down Homeland Security. And listen to this sentence: This is like living in the world of the crazy people. Republican Congressman Peter King of New York has said that what is going on with the work of the Republicans here in the Senate and the House is like living in the world of crazy people. Yesterday the Senate voted to begin the process of considering passing a clean Homeland Security funding bill. Without an agreement to speed up the process, a vote on final passage would take place on Sunday. As I said yesterday, we on this side of the aisle are willing to expedite passage of this bill by consent. We are ready to do it right now.…”