Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I appreciate being recognized. I want to start with a short little story. A month after--well, maybe 2 weeks after--President Biden took office, I was invited as the new chair of a major Senate Committee, the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee. I think the Presiding Officer was there that day, too. We met in the Oval Office with the President of the United States. We sat in a semicircle, and I saw that the painting behind President Biden was of Franklin Roosevelt. He was surrounded by busts of Harry Truman, Rosa Parks, Dr. King, Cesar Chavez, and Robert Kennedy. He asked us to go around the room and tell what interests us, what kind of things we should be doing. When it was my turn, I talked about the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, and I talked about the child tax credit, which, after we passed it, it was a $3,000 tax cut to 92 percent of the families in my State and a similar percent in the Presiding Officer's State of Michigan. Families with children received a $3,000 tax cut, the biggest in American history. I spoke about housing, and then I said, at the end of my little minute and a half: Mr. President, thank you for talking about unions. He kind of smiled and said: Of course. When the meeting was over, after 45 minutes or so, the President walked toward me and said: Why wouldn't I mention unions? I said: Mr.…”