Political Quotes

“We are locked in a debate today over something that we don't have to be locked in a debate about. Our friends on the other side know that everything that was in our proposal, you agreed with. There was nothing in that proposal that you were against. I hear you talked tonight about all the things that you are still in favor of. Those were the same things that we had in our bill the other day, but you voted against it. We are now in the middle of a Schumer shutdown, not because of what the House didn't do, but because of what the Senate refuses to do. Dates have importance. We knew the government would shut down if we did not fund it yesterday. We know that DACA has until March 5 to be addressed. Yet, today, we come here with this phony argument that somehow we are on the same page, we are trying to do the same things. But do you know what? We just can't vote that way to get there. America is watching, and America is understanding right now that this is the Schumer shutdown. Let there be no question about who it is that has failed the American people.…”