Political Quotes

“The Senator from Maine has been very patient with me. If I could ask two final questions. Given the 22 different public statements the President of the United States himself said about his lack of authority to do what he did in November of 2014, given the reservations publicly expressed and reported by a number of Members on that side of the aisle about what the President has done, and given the fact there are 11 Democratic Senators who come from States that filed a lawsuit to block the President's Executive action, can the Senator from Maine understand why the Democratic minority would try to block the Senator's amendment, which would put all Senators on record as to whether they agree with the President when he said that 22 times, whether they agree with the court that issued the preliminary injunction, and whether they agree with their own States that participated in this litigation to block the implementation of this unlawful order? Can the Senator think of any reason why they would try to block or defeat the Senator's amendment and put all Members of the Senate on record?”