Political Quotes

“we recently completed a 10-week session. The Senate's longest in-session stretch in 15 years. It was a very busy 10 weeks filled with substantial results. We confirmed nearly the President's entire Cabinet--the fastest pace since the administration of George W. Bush. We laid the groundwork for a transformational investment in border security and national defense. We continued to develop legislation to extend the tax relief we put in place for American families in President Trump's first term. We passed legislation to ensure that illegal aliens arrested for various crimes are detained instead of being returned to America's streets. We considered other bills that Democrats blocked--bills to achieve such commonsense goals as protecting Americans and our allies from illegitimate targeting by the International Criminal Court, and ensuring that athletic opportunities for women and girls are not taken away from them by biological males. In our final week of session, we passed the HALT Fentanyl Act-- legislation to give law enforcement a critical tool to go after the people trafficking fentanyl into our country. We also passed legislation to fund the government, by a narrow margin. Ten Democrats voted to allow us to proceed to the bill and fund the government. The rest preferred to filibuster the bill and shut down the government. It was a double dose of Democrat hypocrisy.…”