Political Quotes

“The shortest day of the year, the darkest day of the year, and now we are voting on it without-- Let's face it, let's talk about some of the things we know that are in it. We already know, as the gentleman from Texas told us, that your tax dollars, the dollars your Federal Government is spending, is prohibited from stopping people coming across the border illegally. Prohibited to be used for that. Here is what can be used: $400 million for the border security of Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt, and Oman. Think about that. Right now, while title 42 is on the verge of going away, they are estimating we literally have 18,000 people per day coming across the border illegally. We are going to spend $400 million in the Middle East to secure their borders, and we are going to say to the United States of America, you can't spend any tax dollars to defend your own border. That passed in the U.S. Senate today. $140 million on carbon dioxide removal technologies; $540 million on energy storage because the preferred sources of energy by my friends on that side of the aisle don't work. So we need that. $220 million on solar energy. I thought solar energy came of age and was supportive of itself without subsidy. $380 million for alternative modes of transport because, ladies and gentlemen of America, my friends on the other side of the aisle actually don't want you to drive a car or own a car.…”