Political Quotes

“any time we have a President as unpopular as our President, the numbers of all people who serve in Government are down, and Congress is part of that. I would say that the facts are what they are. We have been obstructed on virtually everything we have tried to do. These are just a few of the motions to proceed that we have had to waste up to 48 hours on, 2 days for cloture to ripen, 30 hours after that. Those are just a few of them. Now, look how they passed: 90 to 0; 94 to 3; 93 to 3; 89 to 7; 91 to 0; 80 to 0; 80 to 4; 86 to 1. It was only an effort to stall what we do here. Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, we had to file a motion to invoke cloture on the motion to go to that. The Intelligence authorization bill, intelligence authorization, to give our intelligence agencies the tools they need to go after all the bad guys around the world, we had to file cloture on the motion to proceed to that. The court security bill, that was important to me because we had some vicious man, at 200 yards, shoot through the judge's window and kill him after he had slit his wife's throat. We need court security. In Georgia, we had a situation there where a number of people were killed. We had to invoke a motion to proceed to that issue. The water resources bill, the chairman of the Environmental and Public Works Committee is here. She worked on a bipartisan basis. That bill had overwhelming support, Democrats and Republicans.”