| Authorization For Use Of Military Force |
May 18, 2012 |
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Louie Gohmert, R-TX
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"So we get polls; we get surveys; we get opinions. But having been a judge and a chief justice, you didn’t do that as a judge. You didn’t do that as a justice on an appellate court. You had to look at the law and say, What does it say? And what do other laws, in which this may be in context, cause it to mean?"
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| Government Spending |
May 18, 2012 |
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Rob Woodall, R-GA
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"Budget my office, Mr. Speaker, one of those things we actually have control over. The budget for the Seventh District of Georgia, Mr. Speaker, lower in 2012 than it was in 2008 because we have this new Congress that said thrift has to begin at home. If I’m going to look at other programs to cut, let’s start with our own office budgets. So we’re having some successes. It’s not all about arguing up here. It’s not all about fussing at one another. It’s about trying to come together and finding those opportunities that we can agree on."
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| The Food And Drug Administration Safety And Innovation Act—Motion To Proceed—Continued |
May 17, 2012 |
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Harry Reid, D-NV
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"This is such an interesting conversation here on the floor this afternoon. I did not have the papers. Now, I do not blame my friend from Arizona for not having the documents. I do not blame my friend from Missouri for only having a half hour to look at this. This was given to the Republican leader yesterday, midday. The language they are objecting to was in the base bill, so unless they did not read the base bill, they have a problem here. Now, they said they want to get it done—strange way of showing they want to get it done."
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| The Food And Drug Administration Safety And Innovation Act—Motion To Proceed |
May 17, 2012 |
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Mitch McConnell, R-KY
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"Mr. President, yesterday in the Senate we got a vivid look at why the challenges we face in this country are so difficult to address. With a looming fiscal crisis some have called the most predictable in history, with a national debt at a level none of us ever even imagined, with millions unemployed and millions more underemployed, with the biggest tax hike in history looming at the end of the year, and with entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security drawing ever closer to insolvency, here is what Senate Democrats did yesterday: They ducked. They were presented with five different options for dealing with these problems and they voted against every single one of them."
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