I appreciate the Senator breaking for a moment to allow me to just a say few words. I might pose a question to him, if he chooses to answer with the remaining part of his time. I want to make sure that my remarks are counted toward my…

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this will be the President's political undoing, because Americans are not going to be distracted from the issue that dominates their lives so long as the infection rate is so high.

The President seems to think that if he doesn't talk about coronavirus, then it will go away, and people will stop caring about it. And, you know, that's proof of his ignorance.

all you have to do is copy what we did, right? You have to keep things closed until you get transmission rates under control.

The President of the United States is retweeting articles, for example, entitled, 'Mandatory Masks Aren't About Safety, They're About Social Control.' He retweets people that are criticizing how folks look when they wear masks.

let me tell you how the bailout has worked. When COVID hit this country and people were dying from a disease that we didn't have a vaccine for, as emergency rooms all over the country were being overwhelmed, the Federal Government and the…

I yield to the Senator from Oklahoma for a unanimous consent request.

I concur in the remarks of my friend from Michigan. A lot of our constituents have long thought that there has just been an enormous gulf between the conversations that we have in the U.S. Senate and the conversations that are going on at…

The president, you know, views this as a political problem. He doesn't view this as a public health problem that he's got to solve.

I think this is ultimately about the president wanting to be able to have clean hands.

What's the point of the CDC if it doesn't offer expertise to states when they are opening up after the worst pandemic to hit this country in a century?

Soon isn't terribly helpful.

My specific question is why didn't this plan get released?

You work for a President who is frankly undermining our efforts to comply with the guidance that you've given us.

I think all of us are in awe on a daily basis of those who we have a responsibility to serve. The people of Colorado, the people of Texas, and the people of Connecticut are doing just absolutely extraordinary things, and I hope that over…

My sense right now is that the president does the press conferences and other people are trying to manage the virus.

The president talks in these press conferences, but all of the response has been left to governors.

Absolutely. Absolutely. The fact that we didn't start buying up medical supplies, masks, gowns, face shields early on, when we were begging for that funding in early February. The fact that the president didn't put in place an effective…

Well, pulling money out of the WHO has nothing to do with keeping America safe. It's all about the president's attempt to try to find scapegoats.

Objection. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection by the Senator from Connecticut is heard. There is less than 10 minutes remaining. The Senator from Connecticut.

let me just make clear what happened over the course of the last couple of days, because I heard many of my colleagues come down to the floor today and claim that this is a bipartisan bill that is on the floor of the U.S. Senate today…

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…

let me associate myself with the remarks of the Senator from Delaware and others who spoke before him. We are here. We are all in town. We came back for an expected vote tonight that did not occur. There is no excuse for us not to be…

I rise in support of S.J.Res. 56, a resolution of congressional disapproval for the Department of Education's, Borrower Defense Institutional Accountability rule. It is inconceivable to me that the Federal Department of Education would…