Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise in opposition to the motion. This is my second day in a row being on the opposite side of my friend Senator Moran and Senator Crapo, too, for that matter, but you have to do what you have to do. Over the last year and a half, as we have seen time after time after time, Republicans in this Congress have made it pretty clear to the American people whose side they are on. They have used the Congressional Review Act--something nobody at home really knows about and something most of us didn't know anything about until we began to see at the White House these executive retreats every weekend for Wall Street executives. They have used the Congressional Review Act more than any other Congress in history to give handouts to big corporations at the expense of ordinary Americans. It is not enough for Republican legislators to go to Senator McConnell's office down the hall and cut deals giving tax cuts to the richest people in the country and giving tax breaks to General Motors, which promised that if tax cuts were given to the largest corporations in America, they were going to raise wages and hire more people. Well, GM just announced--to its everlasting discredit--hundreds of layoffs at its Lordstown plant near Youngstown, OH. Hundreds and hundreds of people were laid off, perhaps permanently. We don't know, but the signs aren't good.…”