Political Quotes

“I would say to my friend from Virginia, we both serve on the Senate Intelligence Committee, and of course we have both been intimately involved in the investigation on Russia's activities up to and including the 2016 election. I would like to point out the hypocrisy of our colleagues across the aisle who refused to take up any legislation whatsoever, such as S. 1, which is on the floor and which would take extraordinarily positive measures to protect our most important allies in the Middle East, including Israel and Jordan. They filibustered that bill and said: We are not going to take up any legislation until the government is back open--100 percent of it. For the past 2 weeks, the minority leader has paralyzed the work of the Senate, saying they would block the Senate from considering any legislation unrelated to government funding. A number of our colleagues have said--for example, the junior Senator from Virginia said: ``The Senate should vote on nothing else until we vote to reopen the government. Period.'' Senator Merkley said: ``The Senate's schedule cannot be business as usual if we shut down a quarter of the government and just leave it shut down.'' Senator Booker said that Senate Democrats should block consideration of all unrelated bills. All this comes as a result of the fact that the impetus is on the Democrats to come forward and negotiate a resolution of the shutdown in good faith. But to this point, the Speaker, Ms.…”