Political Quotes

“Mr. President, when people talk about this body being fundamentally broken under Republican leadership, this is exhibit A. This is exhibit A. This body has had 2 months to consider legislation that would stand up a national effort to squash this pandemic once and for all and to make sure that people don't die, don't go hungry, don't get pushed out into the street at a moment when unemployment is higher than at any time in this country's history since the Great Depression. We didn't consider any legislation for all of the last work period. We went on recess for 2 weeks. Now we are 3 days before unemployment benefits expire--the additional unemployment benefits--and we are now getting the introduction of what appears to be a dozen different pieces of legislation from Senate Republicans tonight. We still don't have the details, but it looks as though there is not one bill being introduced but that there are about 13 bills being introduced. We don't have enough time before the expiration of unemployment benefits to negotiate 1 bill--1 bill--never mind 7 or 10. We wasted months of time when Democrats and Republicans should have been talking together. Instead, Senate Republicans were talking amongst themselves and have now waited until the zero hour to come out with a piece of legislation which calls for a $400-per-week cut in unemployment benefits for people who are out of work.…”