Political Quotes

“As the Senator from Connecticut walks away because he is unwilling to debate the topic, I will note several things he said not a word about. But let's focus on--he said: Oh, this bill is very hard to figure out; it is very complicated. Well, the second bill, the one he just objected to, is all of one-page long. I am going to read you the statutory text. The Senator from New Jersey is here. He is a learned Senator. It says: The unobligated balance of funds made available in the COVID funding-- I won't read the actual citation, but the COVID funding: The unobligated balance of funds made available . . . shall be made available to local educational agencies to keep elementary schools and secondary schools served by such agencies physically secure. That is the entirety of the bill. You can use the $100 billion that Congress has appropriated to make schools safer. Now, not a word from the Senator from Connecticut addressed that bill. He just said: ``I object.'' And as for his caterwauling that the first bill--gosh, he can't figure out what is in it; you don't do it this way. I will point out the first time I introduced it, it was Cruz- Barrasso, and every Senator voted on it because I introduced it as an amendment to the bill the Senator from Connecticut introduced. Mind you, in the wake of Uvalde, with great fanfare, the Senator from Connecticut passed a meaningless gun control bill that did nothing to prevent what happened in Nashville.…”