Political Quotes

“as the Senate wraps up its work this week, I have been in multiple discussions with my friend the majority leader about clearing nominations with bipartisan support, and we have made significant progress. Now that we have moved past the terrible process used on healthcare, I hope we can get back to our normal way of legislating and clearing noncontroversial nominees. The two are tied together. They can't avoid regular order when they want to and say that Democrats should use regular order whenever they want us to. Now that healthcare is done, I think we can tie the two together--the normal way of legislating, clearing noncontroversial nominees as we move forward in September. Of course, controversial nominees will still require the proper vetting, but I am committed to help move noncontroversial, bipartisan nominees forward. I hope the fever is breaking. There is a real desire in this body to move past the acrimony of the healthcare debate and get to a place where we can work together to advance legislation that helps the American people. I am hopeful that the discussions between the Republican leader and me will produce a package of nominees we can confirm today. Tax Reform Mr. President, the Republican leader has said that the next big issue this body will take up is taxes. Democrats were excluded from even participating in healthcare discussions from the very first day of Congress, a process that ultimately ended in failure.…”