Political Quotes

“starting yesterday afternoon, through the night, and now on into the afternoon here, my colleagues continue to make an extremely strong and powerful case against Mr. Vought becoming the head of OMB. As I have said before, you couldn't have a person with a worse ideology in the most powerful position in the government, and the damage he will do to the American people is enormous. We will see it week to week and month to month if, God forbid, he gets confirmed. I would make a plea to my Republican colleagues: You know that this man's views are so hard-right that even most of you don't agree with him. Yet to go along and vote for him because of pressure from the White House or somewhere else would just be misserving your constituency, whether they be liberal, conservative, rural, urban, suburban, red, or blue. This man is a slasher. He has shown no respect for people and their needs. His goal is simply to cut everything--almost without regard to how important these programs are--so that he can cut taxes on very wealthy people. To put him in such a powerful position as OMB, to put the man who was the architect of Project 2025 as head of OMB, to put the man who has one of the worst ideologies in the worst position is just a real dereliction to what America needs and America believes in. I strongly urge my colleagues to reconsider and vote no. I am proud that every Democrat will vote against this awful, awful choice. Mr.…”