Political Quotes

“That has not been suggested by any Democrat. I appreciate that you are. Nobody has agreed to fund the bioweapons of mass destruction Agency-- not been suggested. You have specifically--not you personally--the Democrat Senators have specifically said they do not want to fund Customs, which you understand really well--really well--what Customs means--and Border Protection. These Agencies that are listed on this board--there has been no movement among Democrats to fund these, and this is why my point is the same. I am not suggesting to my colleague from Michigan at all that we permanently fund this forever. What I am saying is 2 weeks. Let's reopen the Department of Homeland Security for 2 weeks. Let's let people of good faith--you and I--look, we agree on what you said. Let's take our paychecks away. Let's prevent us from flying home. Let's make us--I will use your words--keep our butts here until we get this done, if that means today, tomorrow, Saturday, Sunday. We could play pickleball in between; that would be fantastic, OK? But we don't leave. If that means right through Easter, by the way, we do not leave this Chamber, and we lose pay every day that goes by until we have funded the whole thing, because we can work it out. We can work this out. But I look at some of your colleagues who said they are serene as to where we are on this. I don't think there are 260,000 families that are serene about this, and I don't think you are either.”