Political Quotes

“in just a few hours, funding for the Federal Government will run out. It is going to run out in just a few hours. It looks like we are going to blow through that deadline right here in the Senate. POLITICO, one of the local newspapers, had an article this morning, and this is what the headline said. They ran an article with this headline: ``Democrats push government toward shutdown.'' Let me repeat that: ``Democrats push government toward shutdown.'' The article says that Democrats are pushing the government to the brink of a shutdown. They are doing it with ``coal country Senate Democrats leading a strategy to oppose a GOP spending bill if their demands are not met for a longer extension of expiring health care benefits for coal miners.'' We are talking about a continuing resolution that passed the House with overwhelming numbers, and it has bipartisan support. The vote was 326 to 96--Republicans and Democrats joining together in the House to keep the government open--but not the Senate Democrats. I have been on this floor time and again with Democrats talking about shutting down the government, and they say that it is the Republicans. The headline today says: ``Democrats push government toward shutdown.'' Now, the continuing resolution that is being asked to be voted upon actually includes money to help these miners well into the new year-- through April--and we are going to be looking at everything in the legislation again when it expires in April.…”