Political Quotes

“the speech given by my friend, the senior Senator from Arizona, is a speech I could give, because he is absolutely right. We have so much we have to do. But we have had a problem because of the Republicans in the Senate. We have spent basically 100 percent of our time these last 9 months on 2 issues that should have taken a matter of a few hours but have taken months and months, the continuing resolutions. We voted on the continuing resolution--for 1 week, 2 weeks, on and on for months, trying to fund government--2 or 3 days ago, the 1st of October. It took months to get that done. Then as soon as we finished that, that little exercise is only preparation for the longstanding time that we had to spend on raising the debt ceiling, something we had done with ease scores of other times. During the 8 years of President Reagan, for example, we raised the debt ceiling for him 18 times. But we spent months--months--on this continuing resolution and on this debt ceiling, and it prevented us from doing our work. So the words my friend from Arizona has given about all of the work that needs to be done do not include all of the work we have to do. I do not think there could be a more important piece of legislation right now, with the jobs being the way they are, than China currency. Everyone knows how they have manipulated their currency, which has been very difficult for our country.…”