Political Quotes

“I look forward to working with Senator Reed on this. He has been a good partner dealing with this. He is passionate about protecting our military and keeping our forces ready. I very much appreciate his partnership in that, and I look forward to our ongoing dialogue on this. I have had multiple phone calls to leadership in the Pentagon and leadership in the National Guard. I am not getting clear answers on this. As I have tried to be an advocate for the members of our Air National Guard, I want to be able to make sure that we provide them that opportunity to be able to serve and that we don't lose access to readiness. So I very much appreciate his partnership in that. Government Funding Mr. President, it is my understanding that in a short period of time we will be voting on the continuing resolution. The continuing resolution has now been passed in the House. It has been delivered over to the Senate. This maintains our government operations for the next 2 months. I have been a person who has expressed my frustration that we have not taken up the vast majority of the appropriations bills, even in committee. It is my understanding that even as of today, 9 of the 12 appropriations bills have not even been discussed in committee, and all 12 of those bills should have been done by September 30. We are now well past that now. On September 30, we passed a continuing resolution that went until tomorrow.…”