Political Quotes

“I hope that later this evening we will be able to have a vote that would allow us to open the government back up and recommence negotiations on immigration and a whole range of other issues that are currently of concern to Members here and, I think, of concern, fairly, to the American people. So I hope we will have the 60 votes that are necessary to do that when we have that vote later today. In fact, what we will be voting on later today has been modified from what was originally sent over from the House, which was a 4-week continuing resolution. This, I believe, will be a 3-week continuing resolution, modified at the request of some Democrats here in the Senate. I hope we can get the government up and functioning again. It is really important, in my view, that we do that. There has been a lot of discussion throughout the course of the afternoon here on the floor and in the previous days leading up to this about who is to blame and all that sort of thing. I don't think the American people, frankly, care much. They just want to see their elected officials work together to get results. The one thing I will point out--because a number of my colleagues here on the Democratic side have spoken earlier today and consistently said that this is President Trump's fault somehow--is that the President of the United States doesn't appropriate a single dime. That is not his authority under the Constitution. That is the authority of the Congress.…”