Political Quotes

“Mr. President, with election day approaching in less than 5 months, Democrats are getting understandably concerned. After all, a historic 3-year-plus border crisis and a historic 3- year-plus inflation crisis are not exactly an ideal record on which to run. And so Democrats have been doing what they can here in the Senate to brighten their election prospects with a series of show votes designed to put Republicans in a difficult position--or so the Democratic leader hopes. I said ``show votes.'' And I say that because all of these votes were clearly designed to fail. The Democratic leader knew that Republicans were not going to support a border bill that had previously been rejected, a contraception bill that would jeopardize the religious freedom of healthcare providers, or an IVF bill that would allow for human cloning and genetic engineering of human embryos. These were not serious attempts by the Democratic leader to legislate. These were future campaign talking points. If the Democratic leader really wanted to legislate, he would be bringing up something like Senator Ernst's legislation to promote access to contraception, which has a number of Republican cosponsors-- or any one of the numerous commonsense border proposals Republicans have advanced, like Senator Blackburn's measure to allow State and local law enforcement to detain criminal illegal aliens for ICE to deport.…”