Political Quotes

“We are here on whatever today is--December 16. We are here, you know, as Congress careens toward trying to get some work done before we break for the holiday season. I am sure that my colleague knows very well where the administration is on getting its nominees. We are not even the only committee that is out here on a weekly basis complaining about the number of nominees who are not allowed to serve. Even though they come out of committee with bipartisan support, they are not being allowed to be taken up and acted upon. We have had people out here from the Foreign Affairs Committee. We have had nominees. We have had various committees--the HELP Committee. So we are just here now talking about the Transportation Committee. So, yes, we have a minority within the minority that doesn't want the administration to have the nominees it needs to get things done. In this case, it is infrastructure. The importance of that is that the majority of people voted for infrastructure. The majority of people have voted for these nominees, and these nominees deserve to get in their place so that individuals can do their work. If the Senator from Florida doesn't want to support--didn't want to support the infrastructure bill, doesn't believe that it was done just like he would do it, I would ask him to consider the fact that his colleagues, the majority of whom did support it, are now going to be delayed in getting those resources out the door. Now, maybe that is what he wants.…”