Political Quotes

“If I could explain to my colleagues about this vote because it goes far beyond the simplicity of just the debate regarding the semiconductor chips and emergency appropriations. The way this point of order is drafted, basically, it would gut the bill. Basically, it not only guts the provisions related to the chips emergency appropriations, but it strikes the Foreign Relations Committee's work, it strikes the Homeland Security Committee's work, it strikes the Banking Committee's work, it effectively strikes the HELP Committee's work and the Judiciary's, and most importantly, the Finance Committee's work, which it was the entire Finance Committee's insistence that the GSP, the System of Preferences, be included in the bill. So all of those things that everybody wishes would be in the bill would no longer be in the bill, including the Department of Energy funding, the increase in STEM funding, and many other provisions. I ask my colleagues to waive the budget point of order. Vote yes, and let us move this legislation forward. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion to waive. The yeas and nays were previously ordered. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 72, nays 28, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No.…”