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.

We don’t believe in canceling part of our history. We wanted our children to understand that the American Republic has never been a perfect union but that its greatness is that it has always struggled to reach noble goals.

Should a Member of Congress call you about that? Is that appropriate or is that not appropriate?

This means, if the bill we hope the Senate approves today is signed into law, Congress will have increased funding for the National Institutes of Health by $9 billion since 2015, a 30 percent increase.