Political Quotes

“Again, we live in this ``land of Oz.'' The conferees had signed off on the conference report dealing with pensions. Basically, there had been an agreement, and they were going to put in that, as conferences are able to do, the extenders. They all worked out. We would have been voting on that today. But they wanted the extenders to help the ``pathway to heaven''--the ``legislative pathway to heaven''-- of the Republicans on the estate tax, so that was taken away. Mr. President, if you are working at one of the hotels in Las Vegas or one of the resorts in the State of Washington or Oregon or Minnesota or California and this minimum wage passes, you would get a decrease in your minimal salary. It does not sound very good to me. And I think I would class it and the people in Nevada and those other six States would say it is a joke. How could you pass something saying it helps me; I get a pay decrease. The minimum wage bill they have here is not only spread out over 3 years--different from ours--it also penalizes seven States. For the majority leader to say that minimum wage is our No. 1 issue, it is one of our No. 1 issues. We have a lot of No. 1 issues. We care about the health care of this Nation--46 million people with no health insurance. We care about the kids being able to go to college. We care about stem cell research, which the President vetoed. That could be a No. 1 issue. I think Iraq is a No.…”