Political Quotes

“Madam President, I rise today to discuss the amendment to the surface transportation bill offered by my friend and colleague from Missouri, Senator Blunt. For reasons beyond me, the other side has demanded a vote on birth control. It seems they wish to debate whether we should take away access to contraception for millions of women. Cooler heads are not prevailing on the other side of the aisle these days. There are some wiser voices on their side who do seem to regret they are having this debate, but they are the minority. Just this morning, the senior Senator from Alaska is quoted in the New York Times expressing exacerbation. Of her party's push to roll back access to contraception, she says: I don't know where we are going with this issue. I sympathize with the frustration shown by my friend from Alaska. There is no good answer about where the other side is going with this issue--except, perhaps, back to the 19th century. This whole debate is an anachronism. Our country progressed beyond the issue of whether to allow birth control a long time ago. Yet here we are in 2012 and some in the Republican Party suddenly want to turn back the clock and take away contraception from millions of women. Make no mistake, that is what this debate is about, as backward as it is. I keep hearing this measure being referred to as the Blunt amendment, named after its sponsor, my friend, the Senator from Missouri.…”