Political Quotes

“I rise today to talk about the heroin and prescription drug epidemic that has gripped our country and my State of Ohio. But first, let me just say a word about John Glenn. I spoke on the floor yesterday about his passing. We lost him yesterday afternoon, at age 95. A true icon, his life was really the life of our country, over the time period from when he joined his fellow Mercury astronauts and was the first person to orbit the Earth to the time that he served here in the Senate and went on to found the Glenn College at Ohio State University--an amazing life. Later today we are going to ask the full Senate to vote on a resolution that Senator Sherrod Brown, my colleague from Ohio, and I are working on. We hope to have that resolution voted on successfully and allow the entire Senate to pay tribute to a remarkable American life--a former colleague of ours and one whose seat I am very humbled and honored to hold today--and that is John Glenn. We will be bringing that up later during the day. Opioid Addiction Epidemic”