Political Quotes

“I have spoken to Senator Inouye, the chairman of the Appropriations Committee. He is beginning, with Senator Cochran, the hearing process where administration officials come in and report to the individual appropriations subcommittees. Senator Inouye thinks that, come late April, we can start moving some of these bills to the floor. We have to wait until the House does something because otherwise we get into procedural hurdles. But the House, I am told, wants to move these quickly also. I hope we can get these bills done. The first real good experience I had in the Senate was working as a conferee on individual appropriations bills. That is fun. That is what legislation is all about and we have gotten away from that and I hope we can get back to doing some good things in that regard. The Auto Industry Mr. President, when President Obama took office 3 years ago, the auto industry was on a life support system. It was in very bad shape. I am sorry to say the life support system the Detroit auto industry was surviving on, Republicans wanted to pull the plug. One man who is now seeking the Republican nomination for President of the United States said, ``We should kiss the American automobile industry good-bye.'' We can't make up stuff like that. That is what he actually said. He called the death of American auto manufacturers ``virtually guaranteed.'' ``Virtually guaranteed'' is another direct quote. So he argued we should let Detroit go bankrupt. But he wasn't alone.…”