Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I know this year is rapidly coming to a close, and we are all anxious to join our families for the holidays. The impeachment frenzy, though, has almost completely engulfed the Capitol, particularly on the House side, for the past few months and has made it very difficult, if not impossible, for Congress to get much of its work done; hence, the last-minute rush to get things done that we should have done weeks and perhaps months earlier. One of the victims of this impeachment mania has been the National Defense Authorization Act, and I am glad we finally were able to pass that today. For the last 58 years, the NDAA--the national defense act--has passed with broad bipartisan support. But this year, things took a little different turn. While we maintained historical norms here in the Senate and passed the bill by a vote of 86 to 8, our House Democratic colleagues took a completely different route. They managed to come up with a bill that was so partisan that not a single Republican voted for it in the House. A party-line vote in the House may not be newsworthy, but a party- line vote on the national defense authorization bill is. Fortunately, after months of negotiations, Senator Inhofe, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and Senator Reed, the ranking member, were able to work with their House counterparts to reach a compromise on the bill, as I said, that passed earlier today.…”