Political Quotes

“as Senators get ready to head home for the August recess, I think it is a good time to look back at what we have been able to achieve so far this year. I would say, by any measure, the record of the Senate this year has been one of great accomplishments and bipartisan achievements because we have worked together to find solutions to help the country move ahead. With Republicans in charge, the Senate set a very fast pace for the first 100 days of the new Congress. We have kept up that pace now over the first 6 months of the Congress, and we are going to continue to build on that momentum for the rest of the year and, I believe, achieve even greater success on behalf of all Americans. Under Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Republicans are now governing, and we are doing it in a bipartisan way, just as we promised. The Senate passed the first budget resolution with the House since 2009--the first one since 2009. The Appropriations Committee passed all 12 spending bills for the first time in 6 years. We passed the longest reauthorization of the highway trust fund in almost a decade. The Senate passed trade promotion authority for the first time since 2002. We passed a permanent doc fix to prevent Medicare payment cuts--after 17 temporary patches since 2002. And the Senate ended Washington's test-based education policies by making States responsible and accountable.…”