Political Quotes

“what we have just done is really important, and I want to thank everyone who helped us get here: my vice chair, the senior Senator from Maine; our subcommittee leaders, the Senators from Arkansas, New Mexico, North Dakota, Hawaii, and Mississippi; and all of our colleagues--all of our colleagues--who worked hard to craft and strengthen these bills. I want to thank Senate leadership and, of course, all of our tireless staff who have met every challenge this process has thrown at us. Today, months of hard work paid off. We just passed a strong bipartisan spending package--the only bipartisan spending bills in Congress, by the way--and we did it with an 82-to-15 vote. So let us be crystal clear about what that means. Unlike the funding measures we have seen pushed through the House, these are serious and reasonable bipartisan bills that can actually be signed into law. They are the product of months of hard work, careful negotiation, and thoughtful input from Members on both sides of the aisle. They stick to the spending levels that House Republicans and President Biden signed and negotiated and that we all passed into law this past spring.…”