Political Quotes

“I suggest the absence of a quorum. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, yesterday, I came to the floor to call on Democrats in Washington to wake up, to open their eyes to the signs we see all around us that the policies of the past 2 years are making our economy worse. Home values are still falling. Manufacturers are showing the weakest growth in nearly 2 years. Nearly 14 million Americans are looking for jobs and can't find them. For many, there is a nagging feeling that things will actually get worse before they get better. And who can blame them? Over the past 2 months, two ratings agencies have come out with dire warnings over the status of America's stellar credit ratings out of fear that we don't get our fiscal house in order. One has already put our rating under review and the other has threatened to do so if we don't do something in a matter of weeks-- weeks. Yet Democrats here in Washington are doing nothing. The President is patting himself on the back for an auto bailout that is expected to cost the taxpayers billions. And Democrats in Congress would rather talk about an election that is a year and a half away.…”