Political Quotes

“in one committee, the Energy and Water Committee led by Senator Bingaman--that committee alone has had hundreds of pieces of legislation held up. It can't get out of the committee. I am sorry it is an unusual thing to have Ornstein and Mann referred to as liberals, but whatever they are, working for the conservative American Enterprise Institute, one of them at least--it is very clear they view this body as being in deep trouble because of the Republicans being dysfunctional themselves. I think it is very clear we have a situation--I understand there is a Presidential election going on. I clearly understand that. I know there are efforts to protect their nominee. We do what we can to protect the President of the United States. But that should not prevent us from legislating. For my friend, who has been on the Appropriations Committee as long as I have, to talk about why aren't we doing appropriations bills--it is obvious. We have 12 or 13 appropriations bills. We have simply not been able to get to the appropriations bills---- Mr. McCONNELL. Have you tried calling up any of them?”