Political Quotes

“Mr. President, you can't keep on saying it is a bipartisan bill when it clearly is not. If it were a bipartisan bill, you wouldn't have this level of angst from the Democrats who were shut out of the process. Let's be clear about what we are talking about here. We don't think your bill works. We don't think the bill that has been drafted by the majority party is going to fix the problem. This is a policy disagreement, and I have an obligation as a representative of my State to stand up and say when I don't think a $2 trillion bill is going to fix the problem. It may make a lot of people rich, but it doesn't have the resources in it today to take care of the most vulnerable in this country, and it is not going to do the primary job at hand, which is to stop the virus. Remember, there is no amount of economic stimulus we can pass--$1 trillion, $2 trillion, $3 trillion--that will solve this problem if we don't get serious about the public health crisis that exists today. When you shortchange States, when you don't provide enough money to help my State and my municipalities manage testing, move congregate populations apart from each other, and try to manage the crisis, then you aren't serious about stopping the virus. Yes, one of the outstanding issues in this bill is that we think we need more funding for the States and municipalities that are on the frontlines of fighting the virus. Yes, we don't think this bill will work--will work--at job No.…”