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This latest rule on nitrogen oxide emissions takes direct aim at the sort of trucks and heavy equipment that literally drive our entire economy, the same bureaucrats who can’t control inflation or secure the border want to even more closely micromanage the heavy vehicles allowed on our roads.
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1992 was declared the year of the woman, and a number of women were elected to the Senate, but you were the leader of the group, and you’ve had an extraordinarily successful career.
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The administration does not face any obstacle to moving nominees who are remotely qualified for the job. People who are mainstream and qualified have a path forward. And yet some of the same far left voices who attack Sen. Feinstein in the past are now suggesting that the Senate move her off the Judiciary Committee indefinitely, the stated reason, the supposed emergency, is that Democrats are aren’t able to push through a small fraction of their nominees who are so extreme and so unqualified that they cannot win a single Republican vote in committee.
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They could move a number of less controversial nominees right now. Right now, they want to sideline Senator Feinstein, so they can ram through the worst four as well.
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The Democrats, it seems to me, spent a lot of time criticizing individual members of the court and going after the court as an institution.
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We had a genuine friendship, so as you can imagine, we hated to lose Dick recently, but the good news is that Dianne will be here for two more years as our colleague and that is very, very good news for Elaine and for me.
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I am opposed to Congress sunsetting any military force authorizations in the Middle East. Our terrorist enemies aren’t sunsetting their war against us, and when we deploy our service members in harm’s way, we need to supply them with all the support and legal authorities that we can.
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Reports about the death of Republican support for strong American leadership in the world have been greatly exaggerated. … Don’t look at Twitter, look at people in power, republican leaders are committed to a strong trans-Atlantic alliance. We are committed to helping Ukraine.
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I am going to try to help explain to the American people that defeating the Russians in Ukraine is the single most important event going on in the world right now.
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I think it will be a challenge for him to deal with this in his own reelection in Florida, a state with more elderly people than any other state in America.
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Kentucky has seen a rise in roadway fatalities over the past couple of years, creating a worrying trend. I’m proud to announce that today’s grant will help our largest city and my hometown deploy commonsense, low-impact safety improvements to reverse that trajectory, the bipartisan infrastructure law I supported promises to help cities around the country reduce traffic deaths and I’m glad it’s already deploying resources to Louisville to help our community.
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This kind of failed approach will invite another humanitarian crisis on our border and privilege powerful interests ahead of American workers.
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There's only so much you can do with the time that's left, which leaves you only potentially with the option of a short-term CR into early next year.
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If Democrats wanted these controversial items so badly, they had two years to move them across the floor.
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That will not be part of a Republican Senate majority agenda.
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Horrified and disgusted by the reports that Paul Pelosi was assaulted in his and Speaker Pelosi's home last night, grateful to hear that Paul is on track to make a full recovery and that law enforcement including our stellar Capitol Police are on the case.
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The last two years have seen law and order deteriorate across our country. Public safety has eroded. Violent crimes like murders and carjackings are breaking records. And our southern border has turned into a turnstile, we have seen the violence and chaos firsthand in Kentucky, especially in my hometown of Louisville. But we aren’t alone. This is a nationwide phenomenon on Democrats’ watch.
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It took one hell of a lot of guts for Kyrsten Sinema to stand up and say ‘ I ’m not going to break the institution to achieve short-term goals.
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I think there's probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Republican Senate, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.
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I think there's probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate, senate races are just different, they're statewide. Candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.
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The queen made sure her reign was never really about herself. Not about her fame. Or her feelings. Or her personal wants or needs.
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Senate races are just different — they're statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.
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President Biden’s student loan socialism is a slap in the face to every family who sacrificed to save for college, every graduate who paid their debt, and every American who chose a certain career path or volunteered to serve in our Armed Forces in order to avoid taking on debt, this policy is astonishingly unfair.
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I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate, senate races are just different – they're statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.
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I think there's probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate.
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I think it's going to be very tight, i think when this Senate race smoke clears, we're likely to have a very, very close Senate still, with us up slightly or the Democrats up slightly.
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I'm here to talk about the flood and recovery from the flood.
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Let me be perfectly clear : there will be no bipartisan USICA as long as Democrats are pursuing a partisan reconciliation bill.
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There are members I have who are not overly fond of USICA but do think there's a national security aspect to the chips deficit.
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Let me be perfectly clear: there will be no bipartisan USICA as long as Democrats are pursuing a partisan reconciliation bill.
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I support the bill text that Sen. Cornyn and our colleagues have produced.
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I support the bill text that Senator Cornyn and our colleagues have produced.
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At some point, when we will have helped Ukraine as much as possible to resist, when I hope Ukraine will have won and fighting will have stopped, we will have to negotiate.
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I continue to hope their discussions yield a bipartisan product.
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I continue to hope their discussions yield a bipartisan product that makes significant headway on key issues like mental health and school safety, respects the Second Amendment, earns broad support in the Senate, and makes a difference for our country.
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Why won’t Speaker Pelosi stop blocking a bipartisan security bill that passed the Senate unanimously?
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Inexplicably, this urgent and uncontroversial bill has been sitting on Speaker Pelosi's desk ever since, the same The House Democrats whose irresponsible rhetoric has contributed to this dangerous climate are themselves blocking added security for the judges and their spouses and their children.
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It won't surprise you to know that I'm not going to sit here and try to negotiate the deal with all of you guys, we're waiting to see if we can get an outcome that directly relates to the problem that brought this issue to the fore, one more time.
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We have a Second Amendment to the Constitution. We take it seriously. There's the right to keep and bear arms in this country, and so what I've done is encourage some bipartisan discussions that are going on. In fact, I just had a call with one of the members of it to see if we can find a way forward consistent with the Second Amendment that targets the problem.
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This problem has been developing in slow motion for several months now, but The Biden administration has been characteristically sluggish and halting in response.
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It would overturn modest and overwhelmingly popular safeguards like waiting periods, informed consent laws and possibly even parental notification.
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I think the story today is an effort by someone on the inside to discredit the institution of the Senate, which continues a pattern that we've observed over the last couple of years, what's unique about today is this is the first time we've had somebody on the inside try to attack the institution.
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Look, all of this puts the cart before the horse, you need, it seems to me, a lecture to concentrate on what the news is today. Not a leaked draft. But the fact that the draft was leaked.
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I feel exhilarated by the fact that this fellow finally, totally discredited himself, he put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. Couldn't have happened at a better time.
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Former President Trump's actions preceding the riot were a disgraceful dereliction of duty, there is no question that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day.
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There is no question that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day.
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So far, I'm optimistic that in the places that are going to determine who the next majority leader is we are going to have fully electable nominees, having a fully electable nominee is critical for the Senate.
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Justice Thomas is a great American and an outstanding Justice. I have total confidence in Ginni Thomas brilliance and impartiality in every aspect of the work of Supreme Court.
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This is about the institution of the Supreme Court, but she won't respond. ... The liberal groups that are so excited about her nomination are the very ones that have been calling for packing the court or term limits on Supreme Court.
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Liberals are saying that Judge Jackson’s service as a criminal defense lawyer and then on the U.S. Sentencing Commission give her special empathy for convicted criminals, i guess that means that government prosecutors and innocent crime victims start each trial at a disadvantage.
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Even amidst the national crime wave, a disproportionate share of the new judges President Joe Biden has nominated share this professional background that liberals say gives special empathy for criminal defendants.
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It’s unsettling that senior Democrats have lauded Judge Jackson for the, ‘empathy’ they suggest shapes her judicial approach, if you’re the litigant for whom a judge has special preexisting empathy, well, it’s your lucky day. But the other party is being denied their fair day in court.
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Of course, that is utter nonsense, this is Biden's inflation and he needs to own the White House.
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But at every step, [Russian President Vladimir] Putin has escalated now three weeks and Putin's invasion, the reality, on the ground is evolving.
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Many of these partners are generously helping Ukraine, and we should help them backfill their inventories with more modern American capabilities that will improve NATO's interoperability and bolster deterrence.
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From the gas pump to the grocery store, to clothes, diapers and baby formula, to furniture and home essentials, to car repairs and car replacements – Democrats' policies have put working families on a treadmill where they have to run faster and faster every month, just to stay in place.
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Curiously, the same radicals who want to turn Democrats into the party of court-packing also badly wanted Judge Jackson for this vacancy. It’s a matter of record that this nominee was the anointed favorite of these fringe groups.
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Until 24 hours ago, this compromise was also going to reprogram money away from House Democrats wasteful spending spree that neglected Covid needs, and reallocate it to vaccines and treatments for the American people, but House Democrats mutinied against Speaker Pelosi. The far left would rather preserve state and local bureaucrats' giant slush funds, then fund vaccines and therapeutics for The Ukrainian people citizens. So, the Covid component has fallen out.
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We will not have as part of our agenda a bill that raises taxes on half the American people, and sunsets Social Security and Medicare within five years, that will not be a part of the Republican Senate majority agenda.
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We will not have as part of our agenda a bill that raises taxes on The American people, and sunsets Social Security and Medicare within five years, that will not be a part of the Republican Senate majority agenda.
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Sadly, deterrence after the fact is not deterrence at all. The President should have exercised The President extensive authorities to impose certain tough sanctions early enough to actually deter invasion and weaken Russia, we should have ensured that the pipeline of lethal aid to Ukraine was flowing far sooner. And we should have sent more reinforcements to support NATO's eastern flank allies earlier.
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But I have some advice. Ratchet the sanctions all the way up. Don't hold any back. Every single available tough sanction should be employed and should be employed now, there's no such thing as a little invasion.
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We're all together at this point and we need to be together about what should be done. But I have some advice. Ratchet the sanctions all the way up. Don't hold any back. Every single available tough sanction should be employed and should be employed now, there's no such thing as a little invasion.
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I don't believe Vladimir Putin would have a couple of hundred thousand troops on the border with Ukraine had we not precipitously withdrawn from Afghanistan last August, the impression we have left, first with the abandonment of Afghanistan, is that America is not interested in playing as large a leadership role as we used to.
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This far-left Black Lives Matter activist and defund-the-police cheerleader walked into a Jewish Democrat’s campaign headquarters and opened fire, but guess what: He’s already been let out of jail. He's already been let out of jail.
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I'm confident that if activists claiming to be conservative tried to assassinate a politician, whatever his mental state, the media would open a 24/7 national conversation about rhetoric on the right.
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I'm confident that if activists claiming to be conservative tried to assassinate a politician, whatever his mental state,the media would open a 24/7 national conversation about rhetoric on the right.
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Americans who watched the Super Bowl saw rich celebrities having a grand time with hardly a mask in sight, but under Democrats policies, first-graders who watch that big plus party last night had to wake up this morning and cover their own faces..to go to school.
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We've known..that this variant is significantly milder, we've known for many months that the universally available vaccines reduce the odds of hospitalization or death down to the level of many routine risks that we all face constantly in our daily lives.
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This is pretty simple, we are in the middle of a national crime wave. The Republican Party is a pro-police, tough-on-crime party. And I am a pro-police, tough-on-crime Republican across the board.
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After careful consideration, I've made the decision to oppose the House Democrats' slanted and unbalanced proposal for another commission to study the events of January 6, as everybody surely knows, I repeatedly made my views about the events of January 6 very clear. I spoke clearly and left no doubt about my conclusions.
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We all were here ; we saw what happened, it was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election from one administration to the next. That's what it was.
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We all were here. We saw what happened, it was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election from one administration to the next. That's what it was.
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Traditionally, the view of the national party committees is we support all members of our party, regardless of their positions on some issues.
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Traditionally, the view of the national party committees is that we support all members of our party, regardless of their positions on some issues.
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It was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election from one administration to the next.
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American families are already hurting enough, and they need that bad idea to stay buried.
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President Biden was elected on the specific premise to govern the middle, steward our governing institutions and unite a divided country.
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I’m not going to start talking about what might happen if I’m the Majority Leader the last two years of (President Biden’s) current term. I’m just not going to comment.
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You’d have to go back to 1888 when Grover Cleveland was in the White House to find the last time a Senate of a different party from the president confirmed a nominee for the Supreme Court in an election year.
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It took us six years to climb out of that hole, we're not in a hole now.
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I think I can pretty confidently say, we won't lose any elections over that issue, anywhere in the country, people are concerned about a wholly different set of concerns. Inflation, an out-of-control border, Afghanistan withdrawal, the controversy over covid. I mean, the thought that a single Senate race in America would be decided over that issue strikes me as being wildly out of touch with what the American people are interested in.
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Well, they'd both be ideal candidates, for obvious reasons, both enjoy high approval ratings, and I think would make both those races instantly competitive.
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I looked into Herschel Walker's record -- I'm entirely comfortable with him, we believe he starts his race dead even, pretty unusual against the incumbent anywhere in the country. And I think when you see his finance report, it'll be impressive as well.
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In terms of Pennsylvania, I think we have an embarrassment of riches, maybe riches literally given the amount of money being spent up there.
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Well, I'm gon na be running again( for leader) in November, and we'll see what happens later.
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People in Alaska have to decide whether that's a terribly relevant issue to them.
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It's important for candidates to remember we need to respect the results of our democratic process unless the court system demonstrates that some significant fraud occurred that would change the outcome.
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We think New Hampshire is going to be much more receptive to Senate Republicans as well, and we think we'll have a good candidate there.
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Missouri is potentially challenging depending on the outcome in the primary.
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All I'll say about Missouri at this point is we're keeping our eye on it.
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We're going to be all in Alaska helping Lisa Murkowski, and that's one place where the former President and I have a disagreement.
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I think the voters of these states are going to make these decisions, as well they should, and I think every state in America will accurately count the votes and certify who won.
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[A]ll Republicans, believe me of all stripes, will be together voting to send this administration a strong message this November.
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I wish Joe Biden well, and I'm happy to take a look at what Joe Biden come up with.
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Make no mistake about it, the election this fall is a referendum on this all-Democratic government.
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This is not some modest bill about ballot access. It is a sprawling takeover of our whole political system, it was never even intended to attract bipartisan support. This partisan Frankenstein bill that House Democrats slapped together was intended to do just one thing and one thing only: give the Senate Democratic leader a pretext – a pretext to break the Senate.
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Our colleague is not trying to conclude an unending discussion that he cannot stop, he’s trying to short-circuit a debate that he cannot win, this is just the kind of short-sighted power grab this body was actually built to stop.
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Instead they’ve been consumed by a fake panic over election laws that seem to exist only in their own imaginations.
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There’s no stigma attached to wearing a mask. There’s no stigma attached to staying six feet apart.
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But Democrats blocked it by denying 60, many of the same colleagues have spent weeks thundering… that the Senate's 60-vote threshold is an offensive tool of obstruction, a Jim Crow relic, declaring that simple majorities should always get their way. But late last week they literally wielded the 60-vote threshold themselves.
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Targeting Americans' online speech and sending government money to political campaigns is not about civil rights. It's about tilting the playing field, weakening wildly popular voter ID laws and making it harder to produce accurate voter rolls is not about making voting easier. It's about making cheating easier.
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Many of the same colleagues have spent weeks thundering… that the Senate's 60-vote threshold is an offensive tool of obstruction, a Jim Crow relic, declaring that simple majorities should always get their way. But late last week they literally wielded the 60-vote threshold themselves.
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I have known, liked, and personally respected Joe Biden for many years, i did not recognize the man at that podium yesterday.
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How profoundly -- profoundly -- unpresidential, i've known, liked and personally respected Joe Biden for many years. I did not recognize the man at the podium yesterday.
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I'm going to mention four names and ask you a question. Christine O'Donnell, Sharron Angle, ToddAkinand Richard Mourdock, what do they all have in common? They're not senators.
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I think Sen. Rounds told the truth about what happened in the 2020 election, and I agree with him.
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You've been a real friend, you've been a trusted partner, and it's been an honor to serve with you, we're all going to miss you.
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How profoundly — profoundly — unpresidential, i've known, liked and personally respected Joe Biden for many years. I did not recognize the man at the podium yesterday.
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You could not invent a better advertisement for the legislative filibuster than what we've just seen, a President abandoning rational persuasion for pure, pure, demagoguery, a president shouting that 52 senators and millions of Americans are racist unless he gets whatever he wants is proving exactly why the framers built the Senate to check his power.
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How profoundly, profoundly unpresidential, look, I’ve known, liked and personally respected Joe Biden for many years. I did not recognize the man at the podium yesterday.
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Our colleagues who are itching for a procedural nuclear winter have not even begun to contemplate how it would look, our colleagues who are itching to drain every drop of collegiality from this body have not even begun to consider how that would work.
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A year ago during the insurrection, people tried to break the Electoral College. And now, Senate Democrats are trying to break the Senate.
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The American people are not buying the nonsensical talk of ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ or a voting rights crisis, it’s not a ‘voting rights’ bill. It is a sprawling, sweeping takeover of our democracy.
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The reason the Democrats want to get rid of the filibuster is they want to admit two new states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and pack the Supreme Court and fundamentally change the structure of America forever, the filibuster prevents extremism … and I admire and respect Senator Kyrsten Sinema and Senator Manchin for saying Senator Sinema and Senator Manchin are not changing it.
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The reason the Democrats want to get rid of the filibuster is they want to admit two new states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and pack the Supreme Court and fundamentally change the structure of America forever, the filibuster prevents extremism… and I admire and respect Senator Sinema and Senator Manchin for saying they are not changing it.
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Well, you know, as I’ve said the last couple of days, I’ve had this conversation with him off and on for a couple of years.
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He doesn’t fit well over there, but that is a decision ultimately that he has to make. We certainly welcome him to join us if he was so inclined.
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Not an inkling, but I hoped. Ironically, my wrap-up press conference at the end of the session last Thursday I said the single greatest favor Joe Manchin could give the country is to kill this bill. That’s what the country needs, to see this bill killed. It is absolutely inappropriate and unnecessary at a time when we’re fighting inflation, it was an exciting thing to hear.
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The American people have seen what true liberalism looks like. Actually, I’d say more accurately what socialism looks like, and we’re headed toward a very significant midterm election next year. And we should, in all likelihood, flip both the House and the Senate to the Republican Party, they’re in very, very tough shape, politically. I don’t see how that gets much better. No one thinks inflation is not going to still be a huge issue. We’re having a difficulty getting people back to work.
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It would not surprise you to know that I’ve suggested for years it would be a great idea, representing a deep red state like West Virginia, for him to come over to our side, but I don’t think that’s going to happen.
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I said, let's pass the sugar and then see if they can swallow the spinach. So the spinach was left behind. And as we speak today, they're having a hard time swallowing the spinach.
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This is about turning the federal government into the speech police.
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The FEC was created back in 1974 in the wake of Watergate. That was a period during which our Democratic colleagues had overwhelming majorities in the House and Senate, they could have crafted the FEC any way they chose to. But they realized that it ought to be evenly split between Republicans and Democrats. It was broad bipartisan understanding that the new panel needed to be beyond reproach. That's why it was built with an even-numbered membership.
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The Democratic Party wants to rewrite the ground rules of American politics for partisan benefit, these laws are about one thing and one thing alone, making it harder for Americans to vote.
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Talkabout shame. If anybody ought to be feeling any shame around here, it's turning the FEC into a partisan prosecutor, the majority controlled by the president's party, to harass and intimidate the other side, that's what you ought to be ashamed about.
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There's a group of 10 of my members… who put together a $600 billion proposal. Roads, bridges, ports, water lines, broadband, there are 10 or so Democrats who look at it the same way. So this is a proposal that could pass on a bipartisan basis.
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Regretfully the bipartisanship is not on display this year, and the principal reason for that is I think what the new administration and the Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate are doing are wildly out of proportion to what we need at this particular juncture.
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I'm not the majority leader, I'm barely not the majority leader – we've got a 50-50 Senate, and I'm still hoping the administration will pivot to a more centrist position and that's where I'm spending my time and focus.
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This is not something that I or do I think any of my Republican colleagues are prepared to support.
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100 percent of my focus is on stopping this new administration.
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The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.
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This administration wants to jack up taxes in order to nudge families towardthe kinds of jobs Democrats want to have. In the kinds of industries Democrats want them to exist.With the kinds of cars Democrats want them to drive, using the kinds of child care arrangements Democrats want them to pursue, these plans aren't about creating options and flexibility for Americans.
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Last night President Biden delivered his first address to the joint session of Congress and today marks his 100th day in office. President Biden is a likable person... but while the tone of his remarks were understated, the content was anything but.
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I think it can best be described as the 'Biden bait and switch,' president Biden ran as a moderate, but I'm hard-pressed to think of anything at all that he's done — so far — that would indicate some degree of moderation.
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Over a few short months, the Biden administration seems to have given up on selling actual unity in favor of catnip for their liberal base, covered with a hefty coat of false advertising.
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Senator Tim Scott is not just one of the strongest leaders in our Senate Republican Conference. He is one of the most inspiring and unifying leaders in our nation, nobody is better at communicating why far-left policies fail working Americans.
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Does anyone really believe the American people were voting for an entirely new system of government by electing Joe Biden to the White House and a 50-50 Senate? that may be what a few liberal activists want. Does anyone believe that’s what millions of Americans just thought they were electing? Of course it's not.
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There’s so much emphasis on the most extreme bills that either party might pass with a simple majority. People forget that the Senate’s 60-vote threshold is the only reason that any routine, must-pass legislation is bipartisan except during divided government, big funding deals. Appropriations bills. Farm bills. Highway bills. The NDAA. The Senate’s 60-vote threshold backstops all of it. It’s not just about controversial items; it’s about everything we do.
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It is certainly not helpful for a member of Congress, and even the president of the U.S. to appear to be weighing in in public, while the jury is trying to sort through this significant case.
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Apparently, we're to help our adversaries ring in the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by gift-wrapping the country and handing it right back to them.
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It's not just about whether this insane bill becomes law, part of the point here are the threats themselves. The left wants a sword dangling over the justices when they weigh the facts in every case.
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They see through this discredited concept, one survey late last year showed that a clear majority of Americans opposed packing the Supreme Court.
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If Republicans had introduced a bill to add four Supreme Court seats for the last president to full, there would have been weeks of wall-to-wall outrage on every newspaper and cable TV channel, now it seems the main strategies are to either shrug off and look the other way ot to actively pay along and somehow lend credence.
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It is retreat in the face of an enemy that has not yet been vanquished and an abdication of American leadership, leaders in both parties, including me, offered criticism when the prior administration floated the concept of a reckless withdrawal from Syria and Afghanistan.
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Senate Intelligence Committee is retreat in the faceof an enemy that has not yet been vanquished and an abdication of American leadership.
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I can tell you as a proud husband of an Asian-American woman, I think the discrimination against Asian-Americans is a real problem, it preceded the murders that were recently on full display.
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It is retreat in the faceof an enemy that has not yet been vanquished and an abdication of American leadership, leaders in both parties, including me, offered criticism when the prior administration floated the concept of a reckless withdrawal from Syria and Afghanistan.
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The amendment called upon the administration to, quote, 'certify that conditions have been met for the enduring defeat of Al Qaeda and ISIS before initiating any significant withdrawal of United States forces from Syria or Afghanistan,' can President Biden certify that right now?
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Leaders in both parties, including me, offered criticism when the prior administration floated the concept of a reckless withdrawal from Syria and Afghanistan.
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Precipitously withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan is a grave mistake.
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Our ability to influence this from halfway around the world is limited.
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Precipitously withdrawing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell forces from Afghanistan is a grave mistake. It is a retreat in the face of an enemy that has not yet been vanquished, an abdication of American leadership, leaders in both parties, including me, offered criticism when the prior administration floated a concept of a reckless withdrawal from Syria and Afghanistan. Those same voices in both parties should be equally concerned about the Joe Biden administration's announcement today.
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Our private sector must stop taking cues from the Outrage-Industrial Complex.
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Americans do not need or want big business to amplify disinformation or react to every manufactured controversy with frantic left-wing signaling.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I am concerned in the level of our national debt. We’ve reached a critical point here. And I hope we’re not beginning to engage in a habit of any time we want to do something, call it a national emergency and run up the national debt, twenty-seventrillion dollars. The same size as our economy. For the first time since World War II.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This plan is not about rebuilding America’s backbone.Less than 6% of this massive proposal goes to roads and bridges, it would spend more money just on electric cars than on America’s roads, bridges, ports, airports, and waterways combined.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Im finishing 36 years in the Senate and Ive cast a lot of big votes, and in my view, just my view, this is will be the most consequential I have ever cast.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We’ve enacted an annual NDAA for 59 straight years and counting, in the next few days – the easy way or the hard way – we’re going to do our job once again. This body will fulfill our responsibility to the men and women who protect our country.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Today The Senate was supposed to finish legislation securing critical tools, training and support for America's armed forces, but the junior senator from Vermont had other ideas.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The Senate is not going to be bullied into rushing out more borrowed money into the hands of Democrats' rich friends who don't need the help.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The Senate is not going to split apart the three issues that President Donald Trump linked together.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
For the brave men and women of the United States armed forces, failure is simply not an option, so when it’s our turn in Congress to have their backs, failure is not an option either. I would urge my colleagues to support this legislation one more time.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
In what universe should emergency aid for small business be contingent on massive bailouts for state governments with no linkage to actual needs.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think the one thing we all agree on is we don't have time for messaging games, we don't have time for lengthy negotiations, the issue is : we want to get a result and I like to remind everybody that the way you get a result is you have to have a presidential signature.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
What I've emphasized is that one of the beauties of the American election system is we have 50 separate ways to conduct them, every state is different. It ought to stay that way.
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Once those certifications occur, if they occur, based upon litigation that's being tried in various places, those will be final, the Electoral College will meet in December, and the inauguration will be on January 20.
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We're going to have an orderly transfer from this administration to the next one, what we all say about it is, frankly, irrelevant.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
In the United States of America, all legal ballots must be counted. Any illegal ballots must not be counted. The process must be transparent or observable by all sides, and the courts are here to work through concerns, our institutions are actually built for this. We have the system in place to consider concerns, and President Trump is 100 % within President Trump rights to look into allegations of irregularities and weigh President Trump legal options.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We need another rescue package, i think we need to do it and I think we need to do it before the end of the year.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The guy to negotiate with in the administration was the Vice President, not the President, with Joe Biden, we didn't waste a lot of time talking about things we knew we would never agree on. I didn't lecture Joe Biden, Joe Biden didn't lecture me. We got down to the areas where there was a possible agreement and were able to get to an outcome. A very different experience from being in a negotiating setting with the President.
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You've been a real friend. You've been a trusted partner, and it's been an honor to serve with you. We are all going to miss you.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The courts will decide disputes, that's the way we do it in this country. Having close disputed elections is not unusual.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We probably need to do another package, certainly more modest than the $ 3 trillion dollar House Speaker Nancy Pelosi package, i think that'll be something we'll need to do right at the beginning of the year.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think we need to make a careful, calculated decision about what more to do to deal with this Coronavirus. We're throwing money at the search for a vaccine, which is the wise thing to do.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
They're both going to the polls. They're going to bring their people with them. And you know that the biggest winner is going to be Trump, because everybody that votes for both of them is going to vote for me.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We've made an important contribution to the future of this country, a lot of what we've done over the last four years will be undone, sooner or later, by the next election. Won't be able to do much about this, for a long time to come.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The anti-religious bigotry needs to stop. It is an embarrassment to those who propagate it. Fortunately, it will not stop the Senate from voting to confirm this outstanding nominee in just a few days.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Amy McGrath mentions Amy McGrath was in the Marines about every other sentence, i think Amy McGrath entire campaign is : Amy McGrath's a Marine, Amy McGrath's Amy McGrath, and I've been there( in Washington) too long.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We've operated successfully in a Covid environment -- the Senate has done that for some time, in fact, the current members who have a problem got it somewhere else -- not here in the Senate.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We each have to take responsibility for our actions -- wear a mask and socially distance, after the Senate comes back, we will demonstrate to the people we are responsible by doing exactly like I said.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The situation is kinda murky, and I think the murkiness is a result of the proximity to the election, and everybody trying to elbow for political advantage. I'd like to see us rise above that like we did back in March and April but I think that's unlikely in the next three weeks.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We do agree that another rescue package is needed, we have vast differences about how much we should spend.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The discussion from day to day can be confusing for all of us to follow.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I do, i think his view was that they were not going to produce a result and we need to concentrate on what's achievable.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think his view was that they were not going to produce a result and we need to concentrate on what's achievable.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Have I ever been tested ? Yes. I'm not going to answer questions about when.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I would certainly try to find a way, making sure that everybody was safe.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I haven't picked an exact point to bring the nomination up.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
President Trump could not have made a better decision. Judge Amy Coney Barrett is an exceptionally impressive jurist and an exceedingly well-qualified nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States, first, Judge Barrett built a reputation as a brilliant scholar at the forefront of the legal academy. Then she answered the call to public service. For three years on the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, she has demonstrated exactly the independence, impartiality, and fidelity to our laws and Constitution that Americans need and deserve on their highest Court.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
You had the president of one party nominating, and you had the Senate in the hands of the other party. A situation where you've got Read MoreSenate conservatives both would be different. I don't want to speculate, but I think appointing judges is a high priority for me in 2020.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite-party presidents Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
In the last midterm election before Justice Scalias death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last days of a lame-duck presidents second term. We kept our promise. Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite-party presidents Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year, by contrast, Americans reelected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Preident Trump and support Preident Trump agenda, particularly Preident Trump outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary. Once again, we will keep our promise. President Trumps nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I'm sure you can get answers on that from The President The President.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
That's why I describe it like a knife fight in an alley, everybody's slugging it out.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If you don't nominate people who can appeal to the general election audience, you are going to lose, and so the President has been helpful in working with me and making sure we got the right people nominated.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Not only was it the right thing to do from a good government point of view, but sure -- it ought to help Cory and Steve Daines of Montana, they did a lot of work on it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Senate GOP does not contain every idea our party likes, i am confident Democrats will feel the same. Yet Senate Republicans believe the many serious differences between our two parties should not stand in the way of agreeing where we can agree and making law that helps our nation.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I will be moving immediately today to set up a floor vote as soon as this week.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It does not contain every idea our party likes, i am confident Democrats will feel the same. Yet Republicans believe the many serious differences between our two parties should not stand in the way of agreeing where we can agree and making law that helps our nation.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Here we are in September, and we've been in discussion now for the last month or so, with no results so far, so I can't promise one final package, but I'm darn proud of what we did do. I think it clearly made a difference ; clearly helped us survive this economic disaster that we created in order to try to deal with the public health crisis.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I can tell you I do think we do need to reach agreement, and it's harder to do now because we're so much closer to the election, the cooperative spirit we had in March and April has dissipated as we move closer and closer to the election.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're going to make sure that the ability to function going into the election is not adversely affected, i don't share the concern, the President's concern... and, in fact,( Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin), in discussions with( Nancy Pelosi), had already indicated the administration is prepared to spend up to $ 10 billion just to make sure the post office is on good terms going into the November election.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The Democrats are barely even pretending to negotiate, the Speaker's latest spin is that it is some heroic sacrifice to lower The Democrats demand from a made-up $ 3.5 trillion marker that was never going to become law, to an equally made-up $ 2.5 trillion marker. The Democrats calls this meeting in the middle. That's not negotiating. That's throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Let me speak for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, I am opposed to non-germane amendments, whether it's funding for the FBI building or for example whether in the Democratic House bill it's a tax cut for high income earners in blue states or other non-germane amendments in the House bill like marijuana studies or aid to illegal immigrants.
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Just like in March with the CARES Act, Senate Republicans have authored another bold framework to help our nation. So now we need our Democratic colleagues to reprise their part as well.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Hopefully in the next two to three weeks we'll be able to come together and pass something that we can send over to the The White House and down to the President for signature.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This majority is preparing legislation that will send $ 105 billion, so that educators have the resources they need to safely reopen.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Speaking of building on what worked in the CARES Act, we want another round of direct payments.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The American jobs market needs another shot of adrenaline.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I've been saying over and over and over again, wear your mask.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I want to encourage everybody, regardless of who has the authority to require it or not require it, do it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Senate GOP must have, must, no bill will pass Senate Health without, liability protection for everyone related to the coronavirus, nobody should have to face an epidemic of lawsuits on the heels of the pandemic that we already have related to the coronavirus.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Well, I think the convention is a challenging situation and a number of my colleagues have announced that they are not going to attend, and we'll have to wait and see how things look in late August to determine whether or not you can safely convene that many people.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There's a lot more elbowing going on, we will be, as we try to work our way through this, confronting more headwinds because of the proximity to the election.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We must have no stigma, none, about wearing masks when we leave our homes and come near other people. Wearing simple face coverings is not about protecting ourselves, it is about protecting everyone we encounter.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Until we find a vaccine, these are really important, this is not as complicated as a ventilator, and this is a way to indicate that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell want to protect others.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The House version is going nowhere in the Senate, it's basically typical Democratic overreach to try to control everything in Washington. We have no interest in that.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's basically typical Democratic overreach to try to control everything in Washington. We have no interest in that.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We'll be talking to our colleagues about what, if anything, is appropriate for us to do in the wake of what's going on.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I hope and anticipate the Senate will soon take up and pass legislation that just passed the House by an overwhelming vote of 417-1 to further strengthen the Paycheck Protection Program so it continues working for small businesses that need our help.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
In no world, whatsoever, should arresting a man for an alleged minor infraction involve a police officer putting his knee on a man's neck for nine minutes while he cries out' I can't breathe' and then goes silent, to me, to a great many of my fellow Kentuckians and to many outraged Americans, these disturbing events do not look like three isolated incidents, they look more like the latest chapter in our national struggle to make equal justice and equal protection of the law into facts of life for all Americans.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We need to see growth and that will dictate what we do and when we do it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If we do another bill it won't look anything like the House Democrats' bill.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Senator Burr contacted me this morning to inform me of his decision to step aside as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee during the pendency of the investigation. We agreed that this decision would be in the best interests of the committee and will be effective at the end of the day tomorrow.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I was wrong. They did leave behind a plan, so I clearly made a mistake in that regard.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Our legislation is going to create a legal safe harbor for businesses, nonprofits, governments and workers and schools who are following public health guidelines.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think I can speak for our conference by saying were not ruling that out, but we think we ought to take a pause here, do a good job of evaluating what weve already done.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I was pointing out they have their own fiscal problems that predate the coronavirus and I was not interested in borrowing money from future generations to fix age-old problems, there probably will be another state and local funding bill, but we need to make sure that we achieve something that will go beyond simply sending out money.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There probably will be another state and local funding bill, but we need to make sure that we achieve something that will go beyond simply sending out money.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I would certainly be in favor of allowing states to use the bankruptcy route.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
To my Democratic colleagues, please – please - do not block emergency aid you do not even oppose just because you want something more.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We can't sustain economically this happening again. We've got to solve the health part of it, which means not only treatment but vaccines.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Any kind of bill coming out of the House, I would look at like Reagan suggested we look at the Russians: Trust but verify.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
At last I believe we're on the five-yard line. It has taken a lot of noise and a lot of rhetoric to get us here, depsite all of that we are very close.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We need to signal to the public that were ready to get this job done, and the way to do that is to vote aye in five minutes on cloture on the motion to proceed.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
There are at least five senators in self-quarantine.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We are ready to act as soon as agreement with our colleagues across the aisle can be reached, the Senate is not going anywhere until we take action.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
What we'll do is have a 30-minute roll call vote. We want to avoid congregating here in the well, i would encourage our colleagues to come in and vote and depart the chamber so we don't have gaggles of conversation here on the floor. That's particularly important for our staff here and the front of the chamber, so I would encourage everyone to take full advantage of a full 30-minute roll call vote. Come in and vote, and leave.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The Senate should not wait to act. I sincerely hope that even our colleagues who may wish to vote against the House GOP bill will not make us prolong this brief lapse in authorities, and we'll be able to get these tools back online this week.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Trump said during a press briefing on the coronavirus response.McConnell, for his part, touted in Senate floor remarks Monday the $8.3 billion emergency spending package signed into law last week, but didn't delve into potential future policy considerations. He urged calm as the federal government continues its efforts to get its arms around the growing spread of the virus. Read More'With calm and confidence, all Americans — all of us — should continue to listen to the experts, take their advice, and take common-sense steps to protect ourselves, our families, and our communities.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think if the attorney general says it's getting in the way of doing his job, maybe the president should listen to the attorney general.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
A majority of the U.S. Senate has determined that the numerous witnesses and 28,000-plus pages of documents already in evidence are sufficient to judge the House Managers accusations and end this impeachment trial.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
If any amendments are brought forward to force premature opinions on mid-trial questions, I will move to table such amendments, if a senator moves to amend the resolution in order to subpoena specific witnesses or documents, I will move to table such motions because the Senate will decide those questions later in the trial.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We will pledge to rise above petty factionalism and do justice for our institutions, for our states, and for the nation.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I expect the Senate will soon debate Senator (Tim) Kaine's war powers resolution.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We can and we should learn more about the intelligence and thinking that led to this operation and the plan to defend American personnel and interests in the wake of it.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We should address mid-trial questions such as witnesses after briefs, opening arguments, senator questions and other relevant motions.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
What White House could have done is to go to court to try to compel the attendance and White House officials didn't do that, white House officials didn't do White House officials. White House officials just blew right through White House officials and accused the president of doing something improper by simply invoking executive privilege which every President has done.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The new speaker of the The House, the very distinguished congresswoman from San Francisco, has decided that opposing President Trump comes before the security of our borders.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Some House Democrats imply they are withholding the [impeachment]articles for some kind of leverage, i admit, Im not sure what leverage there is in refraining from sending us something we do not want.Alas, if theycan figure that out, they can explain.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
This is a political process. There is not anything judicial about it, impeachment is a political decision.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I'm not Mitch McConnell, this is a political process. There is not anything judicial about it. Impeachment is a political decision.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
In a partisan exercise like this, people sort of sign up with their own kind, and what we may have felt 20 years ago may not be the same as today. You can quote virtually any of us that were here during that period to be on the opposite side because of the nature of the process.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Mitch McConnell would describe Chuck Schumer as not impartial. Read More.
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Everything I do during this, I will be coordinating with White House counsel.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's not unusual to have a witness in a trial. It's certainly not unusual to have witness in an impeachment trial.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
If you know you have the votes, you've listened to the arguments on both sides and believe the case is so slim, so weak that you have the votes to end it, that might be what the President's lawyers would prefer. And you can certainly make the case for making it shorter rather than longer since it's such a weak case.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
There will be no difference between the President's position and our position as to how to handle this, to the extent that we can.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The case is so darn weak coming over from The House. We all know how its going to end.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It could go down the path of calling witnesses and basically having another trial or it could decide -- and again, 51 members could make that decision -- that they've heard enough and believe they know what would happen and could move to vote on the two articles of impeachment, those are the options. No decisions have been made yet.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
My hope is that it will be a shorter process rather than a lengthy process.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
There will be no difference between the President's position and our position in how to handle this.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
There will be no difference between the Presidents position and our position in how to handle this.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The House managers would come over and make The House managers argument. The President's lawyers would then respond. And at that point, the Senate has two choices : It could go down the path of calling witnesses and basically having another trial. Or it could decide -- and again, 51 senators could make that decision -- that they've heard enough and believe they know what would happen and could move on the two articles of impeachment sent over to us from the House.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Weve argued that American families deserve better than this partisan paralysis where Democrats literally obsess over impeachment and obstruct everything else, this very morning, for example, the Speaker gave a speech on national television to push forward her rushed and partisan impeachment. Not one word, not one word on the outstanding legislation the American people actually need. Nothing on USMCA or the NDAA or funding for our armed forces. Its all impeachment, all the time.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
My own view is that we should give people an opportunity to put the case on. The House will have presenters. The President will no doubt be represented by lawyers as well.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Nobodys done more to change the court system in the history of our country than Donald Trump, and Mr. President, were going to keep on doing it. My motto is Leave no vacancy behind.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It's... exasperating to lose such a close election and disappointing. I don't think Kentucky is turning blue as a result of that, we're looking forward to doing well in 2020 and I don't think anything that happened there Tuesday changes that.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I don't see a wave there, i see that natural cycles that occur in state legislatures.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We're watching what happens in the House, and we'll see whether they actually open this impeachment inquiry, apparently they're going to vote on it later this week. It's going to be a very interesting vote.
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I'm not gon na comment on the merits of what's going forward.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
If not arrested, withdrawing from Syria will invite more of the chaos that breeds terrorism and creates a vacuum our adversaries will certainly fill.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Given the history in our country, I would not compare this to a lynching. That was an unfortunate choice of words.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I have concerns about this particular decision, I think it was a mistake, I hope it can be repaired.
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Senators will not be allowed to speak, which will be good therapy for a number of them, we intend to do our constitutional responsibility.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Abandoning this fight now and withdrawing U.S. forces from Syria would recreate the very conditions that we have worked hard to destroy and invite the resurgence of ISIS.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I look forward to discussing what the United States can do to avoid a strategic calamity with my Senate colleagues and with senior administration officials when the Senate returns to Washington this week.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Ive not spoken to [ Trump ] about any of them. I have expressed my, shall I say, lack of enthusiasm for one of them... Ken Cuccinelli.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It's clear there is no quid pro quo that the Democrats were desperately praying for.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It was agreed that anybody Dr. Ford recommended who could corroborate her story obviously needed to be talked to, there was a woman at Yale named Ramirez who had made some allegations -- talk to her and anybody she recommends, this lawyer, Michael Avenatti, whos subsequently been totally disgraced, everybody in the room said were not interested in anybody that Michael Avenatti claims to represent.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Theres no doubt that The Kavanaugh confirmation process means whatever the Senate thinks at any given time.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The conditions that produced that bipartisan vote still exist today.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is in the clutches of a left-wing mob, they've finally convinced House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to impeach the President. All of you know your Constitution. The way that impeachment stops is a Senate majority, with me as majority leader.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Under the Senate rules we're required to take it up if the House does go down that path, and we'll follow the Senate rule.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
What I want to do is spend our time accomplishing things for the American people.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
How long you're on it, is a whole different matter, but I would have no choice but to take it up.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The The Senate impeachment rules are very clear, the Senate would have to take up an impeachment resolution if The Senate came over from The Democratic-controlled House.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I was curious as to what the delay was, fortunately the aid was released and I think it was an important step for our Ukrainian friends.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I've read the summary of the call. If this is the' launching point' for Hunter Biden.White House Democrats' impeachment process, they've already overplayed their hand, it's clear there is no quid pro quo that House Democrats ' were desperately praying for.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It is regrettable that House Intelligence Committee Chairman [ Adam ] Adam Schiff and Sen. Schumer have chosen to politicize the issue.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Let's see if we can actually make a law here, to make a law, Senator Mitch McConnell have to have a presidential signature.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I said a few weeks ago that if the President took a position on a bill so that we knew we would actually be making a law and not just having serial votes, I would be happy to put it on the floor.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I support safety for our citizens. I support keeping guns out of the hands of sick people, mentally ill people.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
If the President is in favor of a number of things that he has discussed openly and publicly, and I know that if we pass it, it will become law, I'll put it on the floor.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I said a few weeks ago that if the President took a position on a bill so that we knew we would actually be making a law and not just having serial votes, I would be happy to put it on the floor and the administration is in the process of studying what they are prepared to support if anything.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I have a lot of concerns about the due process component of( red flag laws) and I don't want to punish law-abiding citizens.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We can get it done, and we can get background checks done, we can get it done because the public is finally at a point where they are sick of it. Sick of it.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
During her tenure as ambassador to Canada, Americas relationship with our northern neighbor was tested, a number of challenging policy hurdles threatened to trip up progress on several important issues, including trade negotiations. But by all accounts, Ambassador Crafts involvement led to greater cooperation.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The nominee is beyond qualified. His record of public service is beyond impressive. His commitment to serving our service members is beyond obvious. And the need for a Senate-confirmed secretary of defense is beyond urgent.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
If Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issues a statement on this we'll be sure to forward.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
There will not be any question that we will raise the debt ceiling, i don't think there's any chance that we'll allow the country to default.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I don't have any comments on that, i'm paying attention to( the National Defense Authorization Act), so I'm focused on getting that bill done.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The timing could not be worse for the Senate to send the wrong signal.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I think were always a work in progress in this country, but no one currently alive was responsible for that( slavery), and I dont think we should be trying to figure out how to compensate for it. First of all, it would be pretty hard to figure out who to compensate.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
A week from Thursday, the Senate Appropriations Committee is going to mark up a bill to deal with crisis at the border, the humanitarian crisis at the border.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I hadn't looked at that lately. I'll have to. We've always dealt with that in a compassionate way and I assume we will again.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Look, I think its safe to say youve talked to all of our members who are not fans of tariffs, were still hoping that this can be avoided.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I remember during the tax bill, people were agonizing over whether one part of the tax bill was permanent or not. I said,' Look, the only way the tax bill is permanent depends on the next election,' because people have different views about taxes in the two parties and they approach it differently when they get in power.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
What can't be undone is a life time appointment to a young man or woman who believes in the quaint notion that the job of the judge is to follow the law, that's the most important thing we've done in the country, which can not be undone.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Ive not spoken to him about any of them. I have expressed my, shall I say, lack of enthusiasm for one of them Ken Cuccinelli.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
With an exhaustive investigation complete, would the country finally unify to confront the real challenges before us ? Would we finally be able to move on from partisan paralysis and breathless conspiracy theorizing ? or would we remain consumed by unhinged partisanship, and keep dividing ourselves to the point that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian President Vladimir Putin agents need only stand on the sidelines and watch as their job is done for them ?
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The special counsel's finding is clear : case closed, this ought to be good news for everyone but my Democratic colleagues seem to be publicly working through the five stages of grief.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The Democrats are angry, angry that the facts disappointed them, angry that our legal system will not magically undo the 2016 election for them, and they've opted to channel all their partisan anger onto the Attorney General.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Two years of exhaustive investigation and nothing to establish the fanciful conspiracy theory that Democratic politicians and TV talking heads had treated like a foregone conclusion, this ought to be good news for everyone but my Democratic colleagues seem to be publicly working through the five stages of grief.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I'm all for taking it up once the president and Democrats, everybody says OK, here's how we're going to pay for it. As soon as that magically appears I think we have a way forward.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
He's earned the respect and admiration of everyone who ever crossed his path, i assure you, in the world of politics, that's nothing short of a miracle.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I'm all for taking it (infrastructure legislation) up once the president and Democrats, everybody says: 'OK, here's how we're going to pay for it.' As soon as that magically appears, I think we have a way forward.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Well, were going to look at whoever he sends up, and once he does, well take a look at it.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I made it clear to him (Trump) we were not going to be doing that in the Senate.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I made it clear to him we were not going to be doing that in the Senate.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I believe that every one of my colleagues knows our present situation is unhealthy for this body and for any administration.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I look forward to seeing what the President is proposing and what he can work out with the speaker, i am focusing on stopping the' Democrats' Medicare for none' scheme.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Its Senate Democrats only sure path to making a law with anywhere near the urgency these Americans deserve. It is the only bill on the table with any provision for the Midwest flooding, and, its the only bill on the table that could earn a presidential signature in time to deliver urgent relief on the nutrition assistance in Puerto Rico.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I appreciate the Attorney General's commitment to continue to review the record in this matter over the coming days, in conjunction with Special Counsel (Robert) Mueller, with the goal of producing as much information as possible, consistent with the law. I look forward to reviewing that information.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The Special Counsel's conclusions confirm the President's account that there was no effort by The Special Counsel campaign to conspire or coordinate with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election, however, Russia's ongoing efforts to interfere with our democracy are dangerous and disturbing, and I welcome the Special Counsel's contributions to our efforts to understand better Russia's activities in this regard. And I look forward to the continuing work of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the threats posed to our democratic institutions by foreign interference.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We should not use this specific vote on a specific policy decision as some proxy for all the Senates broad feelings about foreign affairs. Concerns about Saudi human rights issues should be directly addressed with the administration and with Saudi officials.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I think what is clear in the Senate is there will be enough votes to pass the resolution of disapproval, which will then be vetoed by the president and then, in all likelihood, the veto will be upheld in the The Democratic-led House.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Thats one reason I argued, obviously without success to the president, that he not take this route.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
ISIS and al-Qaidahave yet to be defeated, and American national security interests require continued commitment to our missions there.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I didn't expect that my colleagues across the aisle would make a partisan stand and try to block this straightforward sense of the Senate amendment, when it really just restates what most of us thought was a broad, bipartisan consensus about American leadership in the world.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We're not the world's policemen, but we are the leader of the free world, and it's incumbent upon the United States to lead, to maintain a global coalition against terror and to stand with our partners.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It would recognize the dangers of a precipitous withdrawal from either conflict and highlight the need for diplomatic engagement and political solutions to the underlying conflicts in Syria and Afghanistan.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
With bipartisan cooperation, the Senate can send a bill to the House quickly so that they can take action as well, the situation for furloughed employees isnt getting any brighter and the crisis at the border isnt improved by show votes. But the Presidents plan is a path toward addressing both issues quickly. The Senate bill also provides $ 12.7 billion in supplemental disaster relief for victims of last years hurricanes in the southeastern U.S. and wildfires in California, among other events. The Senate bill also provides funding for nine of the 15 Cabinet-level departments includingAgriculture, Homeland Security, State, Transportation, Interior and Justice that have not been funded since the partial shutdown began Dec. 22. E-VERIFY EMPLOYEES CAN RETURN TO WORK DESPITE PARTIAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN, DHS SAYS Both houses of Congress are scheduled to be back in session Tuesday, but senators who will be given 24 hours notice ahead of any vote have yet to be recalled to Washington.House Democrats, for theirpart, plan to push ahead with votes on their own legislation to re-open the government and add $ 1 billion for border security including 75 more immigration judges and infrastructure improvements but no funding for the wall. The office of Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., reiterated Monday that Democrats were unwilling to negotiate any border security funding until Trump re-opens the government.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
As the partial government shutdown grinds on, help our lawmakers to open their hearts to your love and to surrender their desires to your purposes.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
For the sake of the humanitarian crisis on our border, for the sake of our national security, and for the sake of all the Americans who need all of their federal government re-opened, I urge my Democratic colleagues to get past these harmful political games and get serious about negotiating with the President.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
In light of the urgent humanitarian and security crisis on our border, the president is requesting $5.7 billion for physical barriers and border security, for some context, that is just about one tenth of one percent of federal spending. One tenth of one percent -- for physical barriers like the fences and barriers which already exist, which Democrats have previously voted for with enthusiasm.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Well, it's not complicated. I was in this role when Obama was President, and Biden and I did deals because they needed some of our votes. So, now the role is reversed and ultimately the solution to this is a deal between the President and Nancy and Chuck because we need some of Chuck's votes and obviously we need Nancy's support, so, I haven't been sidelined.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I would say the news is that The President agreed to designate The President top people to sit down with all the leaders' staffs this weekend to see if we can come up an agreement to recommend back to us, the various leaders.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I believe it's essential that the United States maintain and strengthen the post-World War II alliances that have been carefully built by leaders in both parties, we must also maintain a clear-eyed understanding of our friends and foes, and recognize that nations like Russia are among the latter.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
But I am particularly distressed that James Mattis is resigning due to sharp differences with the president on these and other key aspects of America's global leadership, it is regrettable that the president must now choose a new Secretary of Defense.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Jim Mattis is a combination of intellect and integrity. He has been in the fight against radical Islam for decades and provided sound and ethical military advice to President Donald Trump.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I'd like to focus on finishing up this session, we've got work left to do and we'll see what happens next year.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I think the Republican, sort of, core voters in the states what were critical to us, were highly offended by the questioning of the presumption of innocence and the tactics, and I think it was like an adrenaline shot. We were worried about lack of intensity on our side, and I think the Kavanaugh fight certainly provided that. It was extremely helpful.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
You have to go back to 1880 to find the last time a Senate controlled by a party different from the president filled a vacancy on Supreme Court that was created in the middle of a presidential election year, that's been the history.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
What I did was entirely consistent with what the history of the Senate has been in that situation going back to 1880.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We know the Senate is better than this, we know the nation deserves better than this, let's seize the golden opportunity before us today, confirm a Supreme Court justice who will make us proud.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
What we know for sure is the FBI report did not corroborate any of the allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh. And the second thing we know for sure is that there's no way anything we did would satisfy the Democrats.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I want to make it clear to these people who are chasing my members around the hall here, or harassing them at the airports, or going to their homes. We will not be intimidated by these people.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Hopefully, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, they'll have a vote by the end of the week and it will be a positive vote.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Democrats have signaled for months they'd put on whatever performance the far left special interests demanded and throw all the mud, all the mud they could manufacture, even by the far left's standards, this evil, evil smear campaign has hit a new low.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
As I said earlier, and I think you already know, we have hired a female assistant to go on staff and to ask these questions in a respectful and professional way, we want this hearing to be handled very professionally, not a political sideshow like you saw the -- put on by the Democrats when they were questioning Brett Kavanaugh.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Our goal is to have a respectful hearing, it’s not uncommon to have outside counsel to do questioning for this type of hearing. Once the hearing is done, we plan to move forward in the very near future.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I am confident we are going to win and he will be confirmed in the near future, i believe he will be confirmed.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Even by the far left's standards, this shameful, shameful smear campaign has hit a new low, i want to be perfectly clear about what has taken place. Senate Judiciary Democrats and Senate Democrats allies are trying to destroy a man's personal and professional life on the basis of decades-old allegations.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I think any doubts anybody might have had been dispelled by his virtuoso performance before the The Judiciary Committee.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I have total confidence in the attorney general, i think he ought to stay exactly where he is.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I have total confidence in the attorney general. I think he ought to stay exactly where he is.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I think it's fair to say the passion that John McCain brought to John McCain work was unsurpassed in this body. In more than 30 years as a senator, he never failed to marshal a razor-sharp wit, a big heart and a fiery spirit, when John McCain saw an issue the same way you did, you knew you'd just found your most stalwart ally. You'd thank your lucky stars. Because when you found yourself on the other side of that table, as I think all of us learned, you were in for a different kind of unforgettable experience.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
As the days turn to weeks, I know we're all eager to come together and collaborate on ways we can continue to honor John McCain memory, generation after generation of Americans will hear about the cocky pilot who barely scraped through Annapolis, but then defended our nation in the skies. Witnessed to our highest values even through terrible torture. Captured the country's imagination through national campaigns that spotlighted many of our highest values and became so integral to the United States Russell Senate, where our nation airs and advances its great debates.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I think the Russians need to know that there are a lot of us who fully understand what happened in 2016, and it really better not happen again in 2018.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
There are a lot of us who fully understand what happened in 2016 and it really better not happen again in 2018.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
There's a possibility that we may well take up legislation related to this, in the meantime, I think the Russians need to know that there are a lot of us who fully understand what happened in 2016, and it really better not happen again in 2018.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I don't know what about my career makes them think I'm easily intimidated, i will not be intimidated by this group of socialists who apparently want open borders.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We look forward to the confirmation process, which will unfold in the next few weeks.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
President Trump has made a superb choice. Judge Brett Kavanaugh is an impressive nominee who is extremely well qualified to serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, judge Brett Kavanaugh has sterling academic credentials. Judge Brett Kavanaugh is widely admired for Judge Brett Kavanaugh intellect, experience, and exemplary judicial temperament. Judge Brett Kavanaugh has won the respect of Judge Brett Kavanaugh peers and is highly regarded throughout the legal community. And Judge Brett Kavanaugh judicial record demonstrates a firm understanding of the role of a judge in our Republic : Setting aside personal views and political preferences in order to interpret our laws as they are written.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Justice Kennedy's resignation letter barely arrived in the President's hands before several Democratic colleagues began declaring their blanket opposition to anyone at all -- anyone -- that the President might name.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Tonight, President Trump will announce his nominee to fill the current Supreme Court vacancy, we don't know who he will name but we already know exactly what unfair tactics the nominee will face.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It's a darn shame that's where we are but this epidemic is something that's got all of our attention, and I know it's got the attention of every school superintendent in the country.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I think Judge Thapar’s absolutely brilliant, with the right temperament.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
That would fundamentally alter the Senate in a way I think we our party would not like in the long-term.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We have not had a dominant position all that often in the United States Senate. And so the requirement of the Democrats to get 60 votes has saved us from an awful lot of left-wing policies over the years.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I think he’s absolutely brilliant, with the right temperament.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I thought Neil Gorsuch was an outstanding appointment. I’m happy to see a Supreme Court right of center, as it was before Justice Scalia passed away.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We will vote to confirm Justice Kennedy successor this fall.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We'll be addressing the nominee on the floor of the Senate this fall.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
His pen functioned like a lighthouse, helping all of us see more clearly and reason more thoroughly through the most important issues that our nation faced.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
It’s not going to tar anybody, we’re going to fix the problem.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
This modest belt-tightening would in no way infringe on the bipartisan spending deal that senators on both sides agreed to earlier this year. This savings package is 100% unrelated to that agreement. Totally separate, it simply pulls back a small amount of unspent funds from a variety of government accounts.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We hope to reach out to the Democrats and see if we can get a result, which means making a law and not just get into some kind of sparring back and forth that leads to no conclusion.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The next steps in negotiation will test whether we can get to verifiable deal which enhances the security of Northeast Asia, our allies, and of course the United States.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
If North Korea does not prove willing to follow through, we and our allies must be prepared to restore the policy of maximum pressure.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Due to the historic obstruction by Senate Democrats of the president’s nominees, and the goal of passing appropriations bills prior to the end of the fiscal year, the August recess has been canceled.Senators should expect to remain in session in August to pass legislation, including appropriations bills, and to make additional progress on the president’s nominees, i ’m damn glad.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I'm going to ask him to stay at the leadership table and continue to play a leadership role, he's been an invaluable whip and will continue to be that way in the new Congress.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
It is open for amendment and we'll see what happens as it moves across the floor.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I'm not into playing games this summer, i want to accomplish things.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
If it came out of the House and the President said he was for it, I'd obviously consider it, what I'm not interested in doing is having another week, and certainly not more than one week, as I said yesterday, spinning our wheels and getting nowhere.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I hope we pull back from the brink here because these tariffs will not be good for the economy, and I worry that it will slow, if not impeded significantly, the progress we were making economically for the country.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
For these situations to work, you have to not want the deal too much, you fall in love with the deal and it's too important (to) you to get it, and the details become less significant, you could get snookered.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
You fall in love with the deal and it's too important (to) you to get it, and the details become less significant, you could get snookered.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
And I think for these situations to work, you have to not want the deal too much, if you fall in love with the deal, and it's too important for you to get it, and the details become less significant, you could get snookered.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I'm somewhat optimistic based on the conversations I've had with the Democratic leader, that we're going to have a higher level of cooperation than we've had, and we'll see how that works out.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I think we're going to have plenty of time to get done what we need to be done if everyone cooperates.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Swamp captain Mitch McConnell has created millions of jobs for China people. While doing so, Mitch McConnell has gotten rich, in fact, Don Blankenship China family has given him tens of millions of dollars.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I know I speak for senators on both sides of the aisle in welcoming our new colleague.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Thad’s well-earned reputation as a ‘quiet persuader’ has endeared him to all his colleagues. Whatever the issue at hand, his allies and adversaries have always admired his unfailingly even keel, sober expertise, and respectful demeanor.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Advises Trump to support Romney’s Senate bid - NYT :.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
When the Democrat filibuster of the government funding bill ends, the serious, bipartisan negotiations that have been going on for months now to resolve our unfinished business -- military spending; disaster relief; healthcare; immigration and border security -- will continue, it would be my intention to resolve these issues as quickly as possible … Importantly, when I proceed to the immigration debate, it will have an amendment process that is fair to all sides. But the first step in any of this is re-opening the government and preventing any further delay.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Apparently they believe the issue of illegal immigration is more important than anything else, than the government services the American people depend on.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We have a commitment on a bipartisan basis to address the DACA issue, we’ll devote floor time to that in January.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Mitch McConnell Says No to Ryan’s Dream of Cutting Entitlements in 2018.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It’s all really good, it makes the holidays so much better.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
People who win make policy and others go into something else, we’re going to be supporting people who can win.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I’m pretty supportive of legal immigration, the secretary of Transportation came here at age eight not speaking a word of English.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Throwing away a seat in the reddest state in America is hard to ignore.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I have never refused to go to a bipartisan meeting that a president has called.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
And the truth is, what people think of me in light of this is far less important than what people think of women who continue to come forward to tell their stories.They deserve to be heard, and believed.And they deserve to know that I am their ally and supporter.I have let them down and am committed to making it up to them.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
As with all credible allegations of sexual harassment or assault, I believe the Ethics Committee should review the matter, i hope the Democratic Leader will join me on this. Regardless of party, harassment and assault are completely unacceptable –in the workplace or anywhere else.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
That obviously would be a big move for him and for the president.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Our new President, of course, has not been in this line of work before. I think he had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
It doesn’t really matter whether a nominee has been nominated to serve in the judiciary or work as an ambassador … Democrats have time and time again been willing to force needless, needless procedural votes on nominees they actually support.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It’s a little like being a groundskeeper at a cemetery, everyone’s under you but nobody’s listening.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I said to Obama, you will not fill this Supreme Court seat on your way out the door.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We have a lot of work ahead of us, and we are committed to advancing our shared agenda together and anyone who suggests otherwise is clearly not part of the conversation.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Trump had every reason to let McConnell’s words roll off his back. But the president could not help firing back.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
A Congress goes on for two years. Part of the reason I think that the storyline is that we haven’t done much is because, in part, the president and others have set these early timelines about things [that] need to be done by a certain point, our new president, of course, has not been in this line of work before, and I think had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
This is clearly a disappointing moment, i regret that our efforts were simply not enough — this time.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
This is clearly a disappointing moment. From skyrocketing costs to plummeting choices and collapsing markets, our constituents have suffered through an awful lot under ObamaCare, we thought they deserved better. It's why I, and many of my colleagues, did as we promised and voted to repeal this failed law. We told our constituents we would vote that way. When the moment came, most of us did. We kept our commitments.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We have a duty to act. … The president is ready with his pen, we can’t let this moment slip by.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It’s pretty clear there are not 50 Republicans at the moment for a replacement.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We all look forward to seeing this American hero again soon.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I regret the effort to repeal and immediately replace will not be successful, but that doesn’t mean we should give up, it’s regretful that our Democratic colleagues decided early on that they did not want to engage with us to help deliver that relief, but this does not have to be the end of the story.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We don’t have enough time to address all of these issues.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I'm sure that Senator Warner and Burr will take a look at it, they'll get to the bottom of what happened.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Once the Senate completes its work on healthcare reform, we will turn to other important issues including the National Defense Authorization Act and the backlog of critical nominations that have been mindlessly stalled by Democrats.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
I think we could do with a little less drama from the White House, we could focus on our agenda, which is the regulations, tax reform, repealing and replacing Obamacare.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Well, the working group -- the working group that counts is all 52 of us and we -- we're having extensive meetings, as I said a few minutes ago, every day. Nobody's being excluded based upon gender.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Obamacare has failed the American people and must be repealed and replaced, as Congress considers this legislation, the administration will continue working to deliver relief and stabilize health markets, and Congress will continue to act on legislation to provide more choices and freedom in health care decisions.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice, therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Yeah, let me tell you the difference, secretary Kerry, I guess in order to reassure the left-leaning members of his own party, said it would sort be like a pinprick. You know, it really would not be of any great consequence. I don't know whether he had in mind knocking out a couple of camels or what. But this was a strike that was well-planned, well-executed, went right to the heart of the matter, which is using chemical weapons. So had I seen that kind of approach by President Obama, I'm sure I would've signed up.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
If I were one of our Sunni Arab allies watching this, I'd be encouraged that America was back in the business of being more assertive, less passive. That does not mean you are going to send in the troops every time there is a skirmish somewhere, but I thought it was very reassuring.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I've had some conversations with Mitt Romney, obviously, I'm an Orrin Hatch supporter. And Orrin has to decide what he wants to do. If he wants to run again, I'm for him.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Next time, the balance of the court would be at stake, so the motivation to go nuclear is even stronger. It goes both ways, it's false to say Democrats don't care. But I think it's just not their choice.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
It’s just not necessary based on what we know now, we have a bipartisan investigation underway. .. We don’t need another investigation. It’s being handled appropriately.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I would advise President Trump: 'Don't worry about them sticking that label on you. Congress owns the government shutdown brand,' there's no incentive, frankly, for either side to go to the brink.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Neil Gorsuch will be confirmed this week, how that happens really depends on our Democratic friends. How many of them are willing to oppose cloture on a partisan basis to kill a Supreme Court nominee.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
We ’ll know through the course of the week, it’s in the hands of Democrats.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We are going to get Judge Gorsuch confirmed, it will really be up to (Democrats) how the process to confirm goes moving forward.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
He’ll be on the floor of the Senate next week and confirmed on Friday, we are optimistic that [Dems] will not be successful in keeping this good man from joining the Supreme Court real soon.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It's pretty obvious we were not able, in the House, to pass a replacement. Our Democratic friends ought to be pretty happy about that because we have the existing law in place, and I think we are just going to have to see how that works out, we believe it will not work out well, but we'll see. They have an opportunity now to have the status quo, regretfully.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Honestly, this a pick of the heart, not of the head. I'm not so sure U of L can beat Duke.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Obamacare has been a huge issue in four straight elections -- 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, the American people have given us an opportunity to govern. We're no longer just floating ideas ... we have an obligation now to the American people to deliver a replacement for Obamacare that is better than the status quo.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
The American people have given us an opportunity to govern. We're no longer just floating ideas ... we have an obligation now to the American people to deliver a replacement for Obamacare that is better than the status quo.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
We confirmed seven Cabinet appointments the day President Obama was sworn in. We didn't like most of them either. But he won the election.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
So all of these little procedural complaints are related to their frustration in having not only lost the White House, but having lost the Senate.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Every day the President-elect and his team continue to denigrate the work of the intelligence community, to the detriment of the agencies' important work and the success of his own presidency.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I agree with the (Khans) and families across the country that a travel ban on all members of a religion is simply contrary to American values.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There’s no time for amendments, we’re up against a July 1 deadline.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This is the best and possibly the only action we can take to help Puerto Rico.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Doing nothing now ... (is) the surest route to both a taxpayer funded bailout of Puerto Rico and a humanitarian crisis for its people.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I'm hopeful and optimistic that the (Obama) administration will be able to get Democrats on board, and we believe strongly that it’s an approach that appeals to most Republicans.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You see the same thing here. We have had a regulatory rampage over the last six years. A lot of the people the president has put on these boards and commissions in his government are pursuing policies that we haven't passed in Congress.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We ought to be trying to unify, he ought to be trying to unify the party behind him, most of us are committed to supporting him and trying to bring the party together, and I think he needs to play his role on all of that as well.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Given where we are today with women in the military performing virtually all kinds of functions, I personally think it would be appropriate for them to register just like men do.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It won't surprise any of you to know, I’d like to elect a president and I'm hoping this process leads to nominating somebody who can win election.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
When Trump calls immigrants rapists and murderers, he's just doing what he's learned from generations of conservatives, the Republican Party has become the party of Trump.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is a president's constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice and it is the Senate's constitutional right to act as a check on a president and withhold its consent.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
In many ways the Reagan love story was classic Hollywood, but it was unmistakably human too. Hands intertwined, Nancy and Ron rose to the pinnacle of political power, weathered cancer and personal heartbreak, and braved the depths of Alzheimer's cold embrace -- always together. I know every American felt Nancy's immense pain when she, kissing Ronnie's casket, mouthed a tearful farewell to the best friend she once said she couldn't imagine life without.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Senate Republicans condemn David Duke and the KKK in the strongest terms possible.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Unless the nominee for President can carry purple states, he's not going to get elected.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Our presidential candidates are out there beating each other up at the moment, and that's going to solve itself at some point during the process.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Let’s let the candidates run their race, and we ’ll try to do the people’s business.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Unless the nominee for president can carry purple states, he's not going to get elected.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
So what I've said about the presidential race -- and this is as far as I'm going to go so I'll save your time peppering me with questions about the presidential race -- we'd like to have a nominee who can carry purple states.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Those states are going to decide who the president is and those are also going to decide whether we're in the majority or the other guys are.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It hasn't happened in a very long time and I think it's highly unlikely to happen, so, it's an interesting thing to discuss but highly unlikely. I don't have any worries about it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The president is making promises he can’t keep, writing checks he can’t cash, and stepping over the middle class to take credit for an ‘agreement’ that is subject to being shredded in 13 months.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I think the President would be making a big mistake to try to have that voted on during the election. There's significant pushback all over the place.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The bare minimum number is ... closer to 10,000, that's what you really need, to continue to flirt with the idea that it's not going to continue only encourages the other side and emboldens the other side.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Every place we visited, American prestige is certainly at a low ebb, and there's a great deal of concern about the Russians raising their profile.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
They pursued a deliberate strategy to force our country into another of their unnecessary crisis. This leaves the funding legislation before us as the only viable way forward in the short term, it does not represent my first, second, third or 23rd choice when it comes to funding the government.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It looks to me like they’re pretty dug in, they will have to vote on it at least one (more) time.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The American people will give us their judgment about the appropriateness of this measure a year from November.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We'll revisit the issue next week and see if maybe any folks want to change their minds.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
They told us this was an issue too important for political games, but that was last week, apparently.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
As I understand the law ... we have to act before Sept, 17, which is next week, or the deal does forward.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I would remind all of your viewers: The way you make a law in this country, the Congress has to pass it and the President has to sign it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Our Democratic friends want to spend more on everything. We'd like to spend more on defense. And so there will be a sort of grand negotiation here in the fall between the two sides over just how big the discretionary budget of the United States government ought to be and how it ought to be spent.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The way you make a law in this country (is) the Congress has to pass it, and the president has to sign it, the president's made it very clear he's not going to sign any bill that includes defunding of Planned Parenthood -- so that's another issue that awaits a new president hopefully with a different point of view.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Perhaps the most-challenging issue now relates to amendments, supporters of the Ex-Im Bank are demanding a vote to reauthorize it. They’ve made clear they’re ready to stop all other amendments if denied that opportunity. They’ve already proven they have the votes to back up that threat, too.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's always the administration, not Congress, that carries the burden of proof in a debate of this nature, and it seems the administration today has a long way to go with Democrats and Republicans alike.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
This president has been involved in ... talking to a lot of countries: talk, talk, talk. And Cuba is a good example. He thinks that simply by engaging with them we get a positive result.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It appears as if the administration's approach to this was to reach whatever agreement the Iranians are willing to enter into, so I think it's going to be a very hard sell -- if it's completed -- in Congress.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Davis's sole connection to Kentucky is that he was born there, he subsequently moved to Mississippi and Kentucky, of course, did not succeed from the Union.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
He subsequently moved to Mississippi and Kentucky, of course, did not succeed from the Union.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Maybe a better place for that would be the Kentucky History Museum, which is also in the state Capitol. In regards to all the statues that are in this building, I honestly am not aware of what we have and don't have.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
ObamaCare was the single worst piece of legislation that’s been passed in the last half century, the single biggest step in the direction of Europeanizing our country. Premiums are going up, copayments are going up, deductibles are going up. What we will do, Bret, is offer a proposal to protect the American people.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Depending on what the Supreme Court decides, we will have a proposal that protects the American people from a very bad law.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Well, I think we have to see what the Supreme Court decides before we announce a proposal to deal with it.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
There's no question that this will lengthen the amount of time it takes us to connect the dots.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Whatever one thinks of the proposed new system, there needs to be a basic assurance that it will function as its proponents say it will.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This can go on as long or as short as senators prefer, i cannot tell you with specificity when the vote will occur. But it will come when no senator is seeking recognition.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
My colleagues, here is where we are: We are unable to clear any short-term extensions.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Steve Vladeck said the critics have a point. There is no question that the USA Freedom Act is better than the McConnell [ clean ] bill, but I also think there is no question that the act that passed the House does n’t go nearly as far as other reform bills that have been introduced, the question is now : What kind of compromise is everyone going to be happy with ?
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's President Obama who says the far left’s arguments don't 'stand the test of fact and scrutiny,' it's President Obama who says the far left is just ‘making stuff up.’ And it’s President Obama who warns the far left about 'ignoring realities.'.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Not only have these tools kept us safe, there has not been a single incidence, not one, of an intentional abuse of them.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act offers the best chance for our constituents, through the Congress they elect, to weigh in on the White House's negotiations with Iran, these talks have devolved into something else altogether. Instead of ending Iran's nuclear program, the interim agreement would actually bestow international blessing for Iran to continue it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Known for his searing intellect, fiercely competitive spirit, and quick wit, John Heyburn untangled countless legal knots and delivered sweeping legal opinions on cases of incredible complexity.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I still expect to see a vigorous debate this week. I still expect to see a robust amendment process.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
As soon as we finish the trafficking bill ... we’ll move to the president's nominee for attorney general, hopefully in the next day or so.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I'm glad we can say there is a bipartisan proposal that will allow us to complete action on this important legislation, so we can provide help to the victims who desperately need it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
When the American people choose divided government, they’re not saying they don't want anything done.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The trade promotion authority legislation introduced today represents a real step forward on policy that has enjoyed long-standing bipartisan support, and will help expand markets for American goods and services.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It's another reminder of a new Republican Congress that's back to work, and while no bill will ever be perfect, this legislation is a sensible compromise with wide bipartisan support.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Honestly it's my hope that the amendments are not approved, because we need to get this bill down to the president for signature before midnight.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The parameters of the interim deal, in essence, establish an internationally recognized, 10-year nuclear research and development program. Until we know more about Iran's previous research, no nation can be sure of what Iran may have developed covertly already.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
In parallel to the gathering for this dangerous agreement, the proxies of Iran in the Middle East are carrying out a wide occupation of Yemen, the Iran-Lausanne-Yemen axis is very dangerous to mankind and needs to be stopped.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I look forward to enjoying Chico’s Bakery pepperoni rolls as I watch UK play in the Elite Eight game.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Another heavy dose of sanctions would be an appropriate remedy if there's no agreement at all.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We have to finish the human trafficking bill, the Loretta Lynch nomination comes next.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
This will have an impact on the timing of considering a new attorney general.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Congress must be involved in reviewing and voting on an agreement reached between this White House and Iran.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I am encouraged by the growing support for the bipartisan Corker-Menendez Iran bill and look forward to working through the committee process to build additional support.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Senate Democrats -- especially those who've voiced opposition to the President's executive overreach — should end their partisan filibuster of Department of Homeland Security funding.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The House’s pretty clear we ca n’t get anywhere in the Senate. The next move is obviously up to The House. It’s clearly stuck.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Today's Democrat Party seems willing to go to any extreme to protect the kind of executive overreach President Obama once described as 'not how our democracy functions' -- even to block Homeland Security funding to get its way.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
But, over a distinguished two-decade career, this workhorse of the Senate would prove he was anything but.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If we're unable to do that, then we'll let you know what comes next.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Tuesday can be a new day, this can be the moment the president pivots to a positive posture. This can be a day when he promotes serious realistic reforms that focus on economic growth and don't just spend more money we don't have. We're eager for him to do so.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Joni understands that middle-class Americans want Congress to get back to work and that they want Washington to get refocused on their concerns, instead of those of the political class.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
They want us to look for things to agree on and see if we can make some progress for the country.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Bipartisan jobs bills will see the light of day and will make it to the president's desk, and he'll have to make decisions about ideology versus creating jobs for the middle class, there's a lot we can get done together if the president puts his famous pen to use signing bills rather than vetoing legislation his liberal allies don't like.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Look at Vietnam, we normalized relations with them and they are a Communist regime that still represses people. Sometimes engagement works, sometimes it doesn't.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
People want jobs and this project will create well-paying high-wage jobs for our people, we're optimistic we can pass it and put it on the president's desk.
Found on FOX News 10 years ago
People want jobs. And this project will create well-paying, high-wage jobs for our people and it certainly does enjoy a lot of bipartisan support.
Found on CNN 10 years ago
I would hope senators on both sides will offer energy-related amendments but there will be no effort to micromanage the amendment process and we'll move forward and hopefully be able to pass a very important job-creating bill early in the session.
Found on CNN 10 years ago
By any objective standard the president got crushed in this election. So I’ve been perplexed by the reaction since the election, the sort of in your face dramatic move to the left. I don’t know what we can expect in terms of reaching bipartisan agreement.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
I think that's a pretty responsible way to go forward. It doesn't shut anything down but also doesn't give the Department of Homeland Security a full year's funding and guarantees a kind of ongoing discussion about this whole issue.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
I think everyone agrees on a bipartisan basis those are the three things we must do here at the end of the session -- fund the government, make sure we don't have any retroactive tax increases and follow the tradition of many years which is to pass a National Defense Authorization Act, i'm confident the Senate will do that before we depart for the holidays.
Found on CNN 10 years ago
We need to quit, you know, kind of rattling the economy with things that are perceived by the voters as disturbing.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
We're considering a variety of options, But make no mistake. When the newly elected representatives of the people take their seats, they will act.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
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