Political Quotes

“reserving the right to object, I have a few brief remarks, and then I will respond to my friend. By the end of the day, the Senate will have spent 3 days debating one of the most critical national security issues of our time--and that is probably an understatement--whether to support the agreement to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. From the beginning of this process, Democrats have done everything within our power to support this debate. We allowed the Senate to begin important debate without any procedural hurdles--none whatsoever. Democrats understand the severity of the urgent national security issue that is before this body, and that is why we offered a consent agreement at the beginning of the week to eliminate all procedural hurdles and move straight to the final passage vote after the debate. I did that again this morning, but the Republican leader did not take that offer. Instead, he filed cloture on the debate. By rejecting our offer, the Republican leader has made the cloture vote the decisive and definitive vote on this issue. That is why I once again will put forward my consent to skip cloture and all procedural votes and move to a vote on final passage. Every Senator in this body should understand that if they are forced to vote on cloture, it is because Senator McConnell, not Democrats, wanted them to. The idea that Democrats are somehow trying to stop debate or keeping us from a final vote is foolish. It is simply untrue.…”