Political Quotes

“I wanted to take a couple moments and update my colleagues on both sides of the aisle as to where we plan on going on a very important bill, the jobs in manufacturing bill that is before us. The bill itself, first and foremost, is a critically important bill. We have used the almost mnemonic JOBS bill, but it really does affect workers, manufacturing, employment and, thus, it is critical. From talking to the Democratic leadership and our leadership and the chairman and ranking member, we all agree we need to do everything possible to complete this legislation in a timely way because it is important to the American people. We have a bill that passed out of the Finance Committee 19 to 2 which, by definition, means it enjoyed broad and bipartisan support. Now we have had two cloture votes that have failed. Both of those cloture votes are signals to stop, to obstruct the bill. Yet in our conversations, everybody agrees we need to do everything possible-- today, tonight, tomorrow, and tomorrow night--to complete this bill.”