Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, both bills under this rule are absolutely terrible and should be rejected. First of all, you have the proxy voting and remote voting. This has never been done in the history of the United States--not during the Civil War, not during previous pandemics, and we shouldn't do it now. When you have nurses going to work, when you have grocery store workers going to work, when you have everybody else going back to work, we are setting a terrible example by saying: ``You don't have to show up to work. Just give your voting card over to somebody else.'' It is terrible. And then when I offered an amendment in the Rules Committee yesterday saying, ``Okay, if you don't show up to work, you don't get the travel allowance in your MRA,'' that was rejected by every single Democrat Member on the Rules Committee. And then Speaker Pelosi's bill, I call it the Keep People Unemployed Act, because that is what it is. It will incentivize people to stay unemployed. It extends the $600-per-week unemployment payment through January 31 of next year. It mandates all businesses continue the Family Medical Paid Leave Act for another year, and it says that when you apply for SNAP, food stamps, that the $600 per week that you are getting doesn't count towards income. So now you are going to have people that are sitting at home getting paid more than they did when they worked and getting food stamps.…”