Political Quotes

“It is too bad that we cannot move forward; we have so much to do in this body to meet the needs of the American people. We need to do something about the reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Agency. We have an equal pay issue we have to deal with. We have a veterans health matter we have to deal with. We have to deal with a long list of legislation, and we are being stopped from doing that today. I want to be spread on the record that this obstructionism of the Republicans has been carried to a fine art. They are doing a great job. They are basically obstructing everything, stalling for time to maintain the status quo. We have had 7-plus years of this administration which has brought this country down, not up. We have an economy that is staggering. We have a housing crisis like we have rarely seen--maybe during the Great Depression but not since then. We have a war that is costing us $5,000 a second, and the Republicans want to maintain the status quo.”