Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I wish to compliment my colleagues and others for their leadership on this issue. I just want to point out something about the institution and what we are about to do. Monday night we had competing proposals from both parties to deal with this challenging issue of no guns for terrorists. Not surprisingly, the majority party wouldn't support the minority party, and the minority party wouldn't support the majority party. And none of the bills got enough votes to go forward. Now there is a bipartisan version on the floor. Now there is a version where both parties have worked together to do something commonsensical to stop this carnage of gun violence we are seeing in the country. And I am just curious as to why one side wants to fight against a bipartisan proposal by putting up a motion to table. That is what this is. I hope we are able to get over that motion to proceed. But it is important to point out that when a bipartisan proposal is on the floor, where the sides are reaching together to try and do something good for our citizens, one side is trying to kill the bipartisan proposal and one side is supporting it. With that, I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Maryland.”