Political Quotes

“I have an enormous amount of respect for the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, but I would remind everybody that, back in September, he and a majority of the Armed Services Committee Republicans voted against the CR, in September, 4 months ago. Why? Because at the time, he said: A CR is devastating for our military. It is the worst possible thing to do to our military. Four months ago, he said that, and now he says that we should vote for a CR. Think about it. Unless that vote, back in September, was simply hollow and hypocritical, he was prepared to shut down the government in September rather than continue to fund our military, and, by the way, the rest of the government, with a CR. He was right in September, but it took Democrats to actually have the courage of that conviction to say: No, we are not going to continue to gut the military drip by drip by drip, CR by CR. We are going to stand up and say, no. Pass appropriations bills. That is why we are doing this. I would also point out that five Republican Senators voted against the House bill. It is not a filibuster. They don't have 50 votes in the Senate for what you guys want to do. Mac Thornberry was right, back in September. A CR is terrible for the military. Don't support a CR. Fund the military.”