Political Quotes

“we have a lot to accomplish before the end of the year. Government funding runs out on Friday. We still haven't reached a bipartisan agreement on lifting the budget caps to ensure that our investments in economic growth and job creation rise in tandem with our investments in our national defense or in a disaster supplemental that treats equitably California, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as Texas and Florida. We need a bipartisan agreement to fully fund the Children's Health Insurance Program and community health centers, end the sabotage of our healthcare markets, protect the Dreamers, and shore up pension plans for hundreds of thousands of hard-working Americans. We should be doing all these things together instead of in a piecemeal fashion. It will lead to a better bipartisan result, which is a necessity. To try to do it in a partisan way, as the House of Representatives seems to be doing, will lead to nowhere and to a government shutdown. Instead of jamming through a partisan tax scam in the House and Senate, we should be working on middle-class priorities. To make matters worse, House Republicans continue to waste time on a partisan CRomnibus that is dead on arrival in the Senate. There is another path. Republicans and Democrats should continue to negotiate a genuine bipartisan agreement that paves the way for the major unresolved issues to get to the President's desk.…”