Political Quotes

“Just to briefly respond because we are hearing about hostages and extortion and all this kind of thing. I just want my colleague to know because he and I have worked together for years and years and we have never had a difference of opinion that was based on somebody trying to take hostages and these kinds of things. This is about something that is really, in my communities, a question of whether they are going to make it in terms of keeping the schools open. There are no objections to what Senator Crapo and I have been doing here. Let me repeat that: No objections. And throughout the West and in the Federal Government, like in my colleague's State, the Federal Government owns much of our land. People are waiting to see if we will work together and fix this. I want to tell my colleague, I am happy to join him in 20 minutes if we have worked this out, and we will be done, and if my colleague says we will go home and say we got something else done that was constructive. So I want to renew my point: This is not about politics. It is bipartisan. There are no objections. I stand willing, with my staff, to join the Lee staff right now. We can work together over the next few minutes. We have a unanimous consent request, and we are done. I yield the floor.”