Political Quotes

“I think everyone knows that I disagree with the reasoning for the trade bill. Based on my experience of looking at trade bills that have passed the Congress in years past, it is not going to help the people whom I want to help. I am happy that multinational corporations are doing well, but my first goal is not them. It is people who work for a living, middle- class Americans, who work so hard, first of all to find a job, and then once they find a job, they do everything they can to hang on to that job. The trade bill is another example of how we have ignored in this Congress the working men and women of this country. I so admire our ranking member of the banking committee, Senator Brown of Ohio. He has done a remarkably good job of pointing out what is wrong with the trade bill. It passed, and I accept this. The vast majority of Democrats opposed it, but there are some who didn't. I respect them, and I respect their judgment. I am not here to criticize them. I am here to criticize the underlying legislation. This Republican-led Senate has done nothing to help the middle class. It doesn't matter what you look to--minimum wage, equal pay for men and women, the burden of student debt, and, of course, the tremendous lack of impetus to do something about our surface transportation system, our highways. We have 64,000 bridges in America that are structurally deficient. Fifty percent of our highway roads are deficient, and we do nothing.…”