Political Quotes

“I rise to join this debate. I certainly respect the Senator from Missouri for his views and for his own interpretation of what he thinks his amendment does. But I could not disagree more on what the amendment says, what the amendment will do, and what the process has been for us to get to this point. We are down here, and I know my own office, myself, my focus is on our economy and getting our country moving again and focusing on jobs. So when I see a transportation bill that is now mired in this debate, I ask myself: How much more time are we going to waste debating and redebating an issue we have been debating? I know some people think this is an important debate related to transportation. But it seems as if the other side of the aisle, in all the discussions we have been having for the last year about jobs, about appropriations bills, about the debt ceiling, about moving forward on reconciliation all come down to one thing: Let's get rid of reproductive health care for women. In February of last year, they introduced a bill, H.R. 1. They said, let's defund Planned Parenthood. Then, later in April, came a big moment of are we going to move forward with the continuing resolution. It was all brought to a halt until we could have a vote on defunding Planned Parenthood. Then we had another vote on it.…”