Political Quotes

“one of our colleagues just spent over 22 hours on this floor reading from a book, reciting poetry, one poem at least four times, and talking about renovations currently going on at the White House. It was 22 hours of what I can only describe as rubbish. I come to the floor today to ask a simple question: What did Democrats actually accomplish? The government is still closed. Capitol Police officers and Senate support staffers who were here for the entire 22 hours are still not getting paid, so let me read from the Record and into the Record an article published today in the Daily Caller written by Adam Pack. The headline is this. It is entitled ``Democrat Forces Unpaid Capitol Police to Stay Up All Night So He Can Rail Against Republicans.'' Let me tell you the title again: ``Democrat Forces Unpaid Capitol Police to Stay Up All Night So He Can Rail Against Republicans.'' The article goes on: Democrats are refusing to pay support staff and Capitol Police during the government shutdown, but still forced them to work overnight Wednesday so a lawmaker could rail against the Trump administration from an empty Senate chamber.”