Political Quotes

“now, on the debt ceiling, before the end of this week, the Senate must--must--get a bill to the President's desk to address the acute crisis of the debt limit. President Biden was crystal clear in his speech this morning. If Republicans don't get out of the way and let the Senate take action now, our government will in all likelihood enter default for the first time ever. Sadly, the Republican position as the party of default has now become so extreme that they have blocked every single attempt to prevent a default from happening, putting our country in serious, serious danger. They have gone so far as rejecting their own requests for how the debt ceiling should be raised. Their own requests for putting those in action--they are now saying no. Why do you think? Why do you think? Now the Republican leader has repeatedly stated that the Democrats must raise the debt ceiling on our own, and he has directly cited precedents of 2003, 2004, and 2006 when the Senate voted to raise the debt ceiling by a majority vote. But what he conveniently and repeatedly ignores--and he knows better--he ignores that in each of those examples, the minority allowed an up-or-down vote without-- without--a partisan filibuster. In other words, the other side said: Get us to 50 votes, and we won't make you get to 60. That is just what we are asking for now. We are proposing the same offer now, which Leader McConnell has cited.…”