Political Quotes

“I thank my colleagues. I will be brief. I want to thank my friend Senator Murphy for bringing us to the floor this evening to talk about the need to fix our southern border with bipartisan--bipartisan--action. Senator Murphy did outstanding work earlier this year, along with Senators Sinema and Lankford and others, by doing what many thought impossible: producing a real, necessary, and bipartisan border bill. When our bill was first released, a lot of our Republican colleagues were surprised with how strong it was. But then, as we all know, Donald Trump came barging in and told his MAGA supporters to kill the bill. Democrats have not walked away from this issue. We believe, if you are going to call something an emergency, then we cannot wait to act. We hope, despite Republicans' opposition a few months ago, that our colleagues are willing to join us to secure the border, as they said they wanted to do. After all, how many times have we heard from our Republican colleagues through speeches, press conferences, letters that fixing the border cannot wait? They said it cannot wait. Well, we don't want to wait any longer. Just listen to the words from the other side going back years about the need to act. This crisis requires swift, serious, and substantive action. That was what my colleague from Wyoming said recently. How about this: [T]he time to act on it is yesterday. That is what Speaker Mike Johnson said, standing at the border at the beginning of this year.…”