Political Quotes

“let me first thank the Senator from Washington State, the chair of Appropriations. We worked together so hard and diligently over the weekend, and we produced a result, I think, that shows that bipartisanship can triumph over extremism. Here in the Senate, we are bipartisan. I want to thank Leader McConnell. He worked with us throughout. I want to thank Ranking Member Collins. They worked with us throughout because we all know, together, that a government shutdown will be devastating--devastating--for this country. It amazes me that some in the other body--just an extreme few--say they want a shutdown. That hurts tens of millions, hundreds of millions of Americans for only some kind of ideological political purpose. But we said no. The funding levels continue at the same level as before. There is $6.1 billion for Ukraine on the defense side and on the--on the State Department side. There is $6 billion for disaster relief. On all of these, this is a bridge towards cooperation. This is not going to be the final proposal for the whole year. But to avoid a government shutdown, we needed a bridge. It is a bridge toward cooperation and away from extremism, which will allow us to keep working to fully fund the Federal Government and spare families the pain of a shutdown. Let us hope that we get many people on both sides of the aisle voting for this product and that the House understands that bipartisanship there is the only way to go to avoid a shutdown.…”