Political Quotes

“first of all, I want to thank my good friend and colleague from Virginia, Senator Kaine, for appropriately saying to the balance of the Senate yesterday that this is not business as usual and for objecting to our going into recess as 800,000 Americans--many of them who are working as we heard earlier this morning, many of them working overtime--are getting paychecks that have zero on them. Senator Kaine has probably already outlined where he just came from. I want to give the same comments, and I want to also thank the Chair because I know she has come to the floor as well and raised concerns. We have a lot of debates in the Senate. There are legitimate policy differences we have, and part of our job is to resolve those. Part of our job should never be to shut down the enterprise of the greatest government in the world, the United States of America. I think about Mr. Trump, who has spent a bunch of time going on TV and running to the border. My goodness, I just wish that Donald Trump or someone from his White House could have sat in the room that Senator Kaine and I just sat in with 16 Federal employees and just heard their stories. What we heard, virtually from all of them--and I am sure Senator Kaine has already acknowledged this--is the fact that they viewed public service and serving the government as a noble calling.…”