Political Quotes

“I, too, am glad to be back. I appreciate all the people here whom we spend so much time with and all their good work. We have been gone for 7 weeks. Baseball season is about over. I wish it went year-round, but it doesn't. So all good things come to an end, and we will have that over with in about a month. Today, the Republicans return from the longest summer recess in more than 60 years. I am still stunned that the Republican leader decided to have a 7-week vacation, and it was more important to them than funding our Nation's Zika response or giving Merrick Garland a hearing or even meeting with him or keeping terrorists and criminals from buying guns, and as the New York Times reported in some detail on Sunday, climate change is here. Military installations--like those in Virginia as an example, but they are not the only ones--are in peril of surviving. Whole neighborhoods are under water. Highways and bridges to islands are unpassable for weeks at a time--but 7 weeks of vacation and not a word of debate on the rising seas, and they are here. Just ask anyone in Florida trying to pass a bond issue now for billions of dollars to raise the highways and the roads and the foundations of buildings. Now, because of the Republican leader's decision to recess for the summer, Congress is floundering because of Republican inaction. The Senate has a mountain of work to do and no time to do it. First and foremost, the Senate needs to fund efforts to combat Zika.…”