It is unconscionable to me to see members of Congress fleeing home to their families while all over this country, you got families who are struggling to put food on the table.

What Trump is doing and those people who support his approach are trying to delegitimize elections in this country. And that is undermining American democracy.

The fact that Donald Trump has won tens of millions of working-class votes despite being a pathological liar and a fraud, speaks to the failure of the Democratic Party and standing up for those very families.

We have a very unlikely ally in President Trump. Nobody here has disagreed with Trump more times than I have. And yet here is what the leader of the Republican Party says. He says $2,000 ASAP. So, even on this issue, amazingly enough, the…

I took you literally. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Texas. ____________________

Let me just make it clear for the majority leader that 10 out of the poorest 25 counties in the United States of America are located in Kentucky.

The leaders of our country, President Trump, President-elect Biden, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi are all in agreement, we have got to raise the direct payment to $2,000. So, that is where we are…

My plan is pretty simple is to demand that Mitch McConnell allow the United States Senate to vote up or down on that legislation that was passed by the House whether or not we could get to 12 or 13 Republicans that we need to pass the…

The House did the right thing by, as you indicated, over a two-thirds bipartisan vote. They voted to increase the $600 direct payment to $2,000 for every working class adult in this country. And that is the right thing to do.

The leaders of our country President Trump, President-Elect Biden, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi are all in agreement. We have got to raise the direct payment to $2,000.

It's not only the huge tax breaks we gave to the wealthy. It's not only the fact we have a tax code that allows large profitable corporations like Amazon to pay virtually nothing in federal taxes. It's the hundred of billions of dollars in…

reserving the right to object, we should all be very, very clear. The working class of this country today faces more economic desperation than at any time since the Great Depression of the 1930s, and working families need help now--not…

We have got to raise that direct payment to $2,000.

What the president is doing right now is unbelievably cruel.

I am now threatening to hold up Senate work on the veto override of the National Defense Authorization Act if Majority Leader McConnell does not put a straight up or down vote of those $2,000 payments on the floor.

I was going to speak in a few minutes, but things have been filed now appropriately. Let me speak in my role not only as the Senator from Vermont but as the vice chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. We have had months of delay…

I am going to be speaking just a few minutes on another matter, and I believe I will have time at 1 o'clock. With nobody else seeking the floor at the moment, I would just add to what the distinguished Senator from Texas just said. I…

Let me thank the senior Senator from New York, the Democratic leader, for his strong statement. He is exactly right. In this kind of crisis, it is comical that suddenly our Republican friends, once again, discover that we have a deficit…