Political Quotes

“we have a lot of work to get done before January 19, the next deadline to pass our funding and avoid a shutdown. The American people are looking for serious leadership and results, and I come to the floor today to be clear about what the standard for success is here. We need to pass regular, full-year funding, based on the bipartisan spending agreement from earlier this year, that actually responds to the challenges before us. Anything less means missing critical opportunities and worse. A ``date-change, full-year CR,'' as proposed by House Speaker Johnson, would be unprecedented and reckless. Why is that? Well, because the Speaker's proposal would lock in outdated spending plans and devastating across-the-board cuts while locking all of us out of any kind of thoughtful decision-making process for our Nation's future, all of which should be absolutely unacceptable to everyone here. It is one thing to have a short-term CR so we have additional time to negotiate in good faith and finish passing bills, full-year bills that strengthen our Nation, but it is another thing entirely to do a yearlong CR because we have no intention of doing our job. We cannot just throw up our hands, act like nothing in the world has changed in the past 12 months, abdicate our responsibility to our constituents, and box in our Nation's future by putting the government on autopilot.…”