Political Quotes

“on today's, tomorrow's, and this week's business, the Senate will soon vote on two more nominees to join President Biden's administration: Christopher Fonzone to serve as general counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and Kiran Ahuja to be Director of the Office of Personnel Management. Those votes will happen tonight and tomorrow. The discussions on the bipartisan infrastructure bill and a budget reconciliation bill are both moving forward and will continue throughout the week. But tomorrow--tomorrow--the Senate will also take a crucial vote on whether to start debate on major voting rights legislation. I want to say that again. Tomorrow, the Senate will take a vote on whether to start debate on legislation to protect Americans' voting rights. It is not a vote on any particular policy. It is not a vote on this bill or that bill. It is a vote on whether the Senate should simply debate the issue about voting rights--the crucial issue of voting rights in this country. Now, by all rights, we shouldn't have to debate voting rights on the floor of the U.S. Senate. These rights should be sacrosanct, but the events of the last few months compel us to have this debate now. Why is there such urgency? Because of what has been happening in Republican legislature after legislature in the last several months.…”