Political Quotes

“I rise today to associate myself with the remarks of the gentleman from Idaho and the gentleman from Utah, who just spoke about one of the most egregious nominations to ever receive a vote on the floor of the U.S. Senate. I am speaking of President Biden's nomination of Tracy Stone-Manning to be Director of the Bureau of Land Management. I have been here in Washington, DC, for close to a decade now, and I know that oftentimes it feels there are few things that unite us as Democrats and Republicans. I would have hoped that just one of those things that would have united us would be opposition to ecoterrorism; and yet, in about an hour, the Senate will be voting to confirm a known ecoterrorist collaborator to lead one of the most consequential land management agencies. I am flabbergasted. I am aghast. I am horrified. This is a solemn, bad day for land management in the United States. Here we are, $28 trillion-plus in debt--28 trillion-plus in debt. Inflation is threatening every single American. We have a global pandemic, a major crisis at our southern border, a massive government expansion, and debt ceiling debate, and Senate Democrats want to put an ecoterrorist collaborator to manage one of the biggest land management agencies in the United States. The Bureau of Land Management administers about 245 million acres of land.…”