Political Quotes

“in reserving the right to object, this is an astounding thing. This is a conversation that has happened today about amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act. Now, I haven't been here very long, but, typically, an NDAA takes about 2 weeks on the floor to be able to process, and there is a lot of conversation about different amendments. There are managers' packages; there are big groupings of packages that come together that are noncontroversial; and there will be a series of votes that are side by side with other votes. It has already been set up for 20 votes. That is terrific. That is a great start. Then there is a request for some other things that are pretty typical, actually. There have been requests just in the last couple of minutes on military contractors and the vaccine mandate that will certainly affect our military readiness. That is certainly defense related. There is human trafficking in China and whether products are coming through. That is pretty straightforward. In fact, that passed unanimously through this body. That doesn't seem that controversial to be able to be in here. There are conversations about fentanyl and the origin of fentanyl, where that is coming from. That shouldn't be controversial to try to protect the country, but, suddenly, that amendment has been blocked. Nord Stream 2--Ukraine and Russia--has not been a controversial issue for us.…”