Political Quotes

“Mr. President, here again, the Senate has procedures for dealing with any nomination, including these military promotions. These could be brought up individually; they could be voted on; and those whose promotions have the greatest urgency could be dealt with. We could stay in session until all these are done. Neither Senator Tuberville nor any other Senator, to my knowledge, would interfere with that, nor could we. What Senator Tuberville refuses to do, with very good reason, is to pretend like nothing has happened; pretend like nothing has changed; to pretend that he didn't have repeated conversations with high-ranking officials within the Department of Defense in recent months expressing his concerns about rumors that this very policy was being considered; to pretend that he didn't tell them then there would be serious consequences if they decided to proceed in violation of 10 U.S.C., section 1093. No, this is not fair to put this on him. When the Pentagon comes crawling back after they did what they did to him--after they did what they did to the law, to all Americans--that is manifestly unfair. To all of a sudden put it on him to make sure it is his job to make sure that everyone gets confirmed--and, oh, by the way, you also have to help--you are being told--you have to help the Pentagon, even though the Pentagon has just cut you off at the knees. Look, it is very clear. When the law says you may not use Federal taxpayers for abortions, that is a thing.…”