Political Quotes

Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, I think, had the best punditry of the weekend today. He said no one should be surprised that a Senate Republican majority is going to vote on a Republican president's nominee.

If your goal is to increase capacity in the United States, how big a tariff do you have to have in order to make it profitable for companies in the United States to pay for the increased electricity?

From my vantage point, the only reason it did not succeed was that Democrats would not vote for the Hyde Amendment.

I made a plea for bipartisan cooperation as my closing speech in the U.S. Senate today.