Political Quotes

“today is Equal Pay Day. I am proud of the fact that one of our Members on this side of the aisle, Senator Deb Fischer, is taking the lead and pointing out that this is not a partisan issue. I know people find that hard to believe here in Washington, where everything seems like a partisan issue, but the fact is, both Republicans and Democrats and the unaffiliated believe that people who perform the same work ought to be compensated in the same way. So I am proud of the work Senator Fischer is doing. I just wanted to make note of the fact that this is Equal Pay Day. I know some of our colleagues across the aisle maybe have a different view and think they have a better way to deal with this, but it is purely a difference in tactics, not in terms of goals, which is equal pay for equal work. National Crime Victims' Rights Week Mr. President, yesterday I spoke about the fact that this is also Crime Victims' Week, and that is what I want to talk about now a little bit more. There are a lot of people who come to Washington--big companies, people can hire lobbyists, lawyers, accountants, other experts--to try to make their case to Congress, but we don't have a crime victims' lobby per se.…”