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From funding the U.S. government to upgrading America's overburdened highways to boosting the nation's cyber security, the Republican-led Congress passed a flurry of bills that President Barack Obama, a Democrat, enthusiastically signed into law.
“I feel good about what we've been able to accomplish in just a few short weeks.
And I feel very good about where we are going in the next year.”
“When the American people elect divided government, they are not saying don't do anything.
They are saying,look for the things you can agree on.”
Democrats, who lost their Senate majority in 2014, claimed some of the credit.
“When Republicans were in the minority, their goal was obstruction.
Now that Democrats are in the minority, our goal is helping the middle class, and we are willing to work with Republicans to achieve that.”
“If you see a candidate who Washington embraces, run and hide.
For some Republican presidential contenders, a Washington that works is a Washington up to no good.
If you think Washington is fundamentally broken, that there is a bipartisan corruption of career politicians in both parties that get in bed with the lobbyists and special interests and grow and grow and grow Washington…that is what this campaign is all about!”
The congressional leaders are on the turn.
“As Congress works in the new year, I want to make sure that we get back to what is called regular order so that we have a system that operates like the founders intended.”
“The speaker and I had a number of conversations.
He wants to do appropriation bills; I want to do appropriation bills. And there is no reason we can't.”
Congress has not funded the governments through committee by committee spending bills since Bill Clinton was president.
“This big bill we just passed was $1.1 trillion (of spending) in one bill.
That's not the way to do business.
And so we are going to try our best not to end up in that situation again.”
McConnell will need help from Democrats, who have designs of their own for next year.
“We can only hope that our Republican colleagues will be as cooperative a minority as we were this year when Democrats take back the Senate in 2016.”
Republican leaders aim to keep that prediction from coming true, and see a functional Congress as key to that goal.
