Political Quotes

“Mr. President, yesterday afternoon, the Senate voted on the Green New Deal--the Democrats' $93 trillion socialist fantasy. How did the Democrats vote on this deal? They voted present. That is right. There were 43 out of 47 Members of the Democratic caucus who voted present. This may be the first time in my experience here that I have ever seen a piece of legislation and people who authored that legislation-- in this case, there were 13 Democrats who authored the bill, cosponsored the bill, introduced the bill, and indicated that action on the issue needed to be taken now--proceed to vote present. I have never seen that in my time either in the House or in the Senate. There was always an opportunity, as the Presiding Officer knows, in the House of Representatives, when you voted by electronic machine, to punch the yellow ``present'' option. You had red or green or present, but very rarely was that used. Yet I don't think I have ever seen, in the U.S. Senate, 13 U.S. Senators file a bill, introduce a bill, cosponsor a bill, talk about how important it is that we deal with it and deal with it immediately, and then proceed to vote present. That is what happened yesterday. I want to step back for a minute and talk about the Green New Deal-- the Democrats' plan to put the government in charge of everything from your energy to your healthcare. The costs of this plan would be staggeringly high.…”