Political Quotes

“the clerk just read the matter before the Senate, which is to prevent the interest rate on loans students receive to go to school--the money they borrow--from doubling from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. That is the pending matter before the Senate. Yesterday the Republicans continued to filibuster our plan to prevent that from happening. We do not want the rates to double. We don't want them to go up at all. There are 30,000 people in Nevada who are depending on our doing something to freeze those rates. But what is worse, in my estimation--and I think that of the American people--is that Republicans seem proud of blocking this legislation. Not a single Republican voted to allow the debate to go forward. This isn't an issue of saying: OK, if I vote for this, this will be the legislation. They would not even let us go forward to debate it. They have said they like the bill, except they do not like the way it is paid for. Fine. Let's get on the bill and offer amendments to pay for it. But no--every single Republican voted no. Every single Republican said: We are not going to allow a debate. The American people certainly shouldn't be surprised because this has been going on for 3 years, almost 4 years. Everything is a fight. They are blocking legislation that would allow us to stop the increase of the rate on student loans. That is wrong. And the person who signed this legislation into law, making this interest rate such as it is, was President Bush.…”