Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I want to thank my good friend and colleague from Texas for laying out the choice before us and highlighting, again, this issue of good-faith negotiations, which hopefully we are starting to see, but last week we didn't see; and he talked about the so-called Heroes Act passed in May--so quite stale. I will say one other element of that that was shocking and has been shocking to me is, there is a whole section on clawing back CARES Act money that went to Alaska Natives. The Heroes Act, the Pelosi $4 trillion bill, has a section that targets expressly about 20 percent of the population of my State--and my State only. By the way, they are amazing, patriotic people who have been through pandemics before and have suffered horrendously during these pandemics. The Heroes Act targets them and says any money that Native Alaskan organizations have received--by the way, organizations, regional and village corporations set up by Congress--any money they have received will be clawed back in the Heroes Act. Of course, I am never going to let that bill pass-- ever--on this floor. It is an outrage. They need to get more serious about these negotiations, and the ``take it or leave it'' on the $4 trillion Pelosi bill that specifically targets some of the most patriotic Americans in the country, who happen to be my constituents--Alaska Natives--is never going to fly. Never ____________________”