Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I wish to acknowledge the remarks made earlier by my colleague from Utah whom I thought did a nice job of providing a history lesson for Members of the Senate about the past several years of tax policy and why we are where we are today. I don't think there is anybody here in this Chamber or any Senator from any State who doesn't acknowledge that we have a big problem right now with 9.8 percent unemployment. We have a lot of things on which we agree in the Senate. We have a lot of things on which we disagree. I think the one thing we agree on is that 9.8 percent unemployment is unacceptable. I think the thing we disagree on is how we get that unemployment rate down. How do we create jobs? How do we get people in this country back to work? There has been a lot of discussion about various issues that might be dealt with here in the Senate before the end of the year, most of which don't deal with this fundamental issue. The fundamental issue that is important to most Americans--and I have heard many of my colleagues get up and talk about people who are hurting. They are hurting. We are going into a holiday season with a lot of people unemployed, and with the numbers that came out this morning, that number got worse. We have more people unemployed, more people hurting economically. Yet in the waning days of this legislative session before the holiday break and before a new Congress gets seated next year, we have had discussion and motions about the DREAM Act.…”