Chris Coons: “I ask the question, as I have for several weeks now: Why are we here? What I hear from my constituents in Delaware, as I…”

“I ask the question, as I have for several weeks now: Why are we here? What I hear from my constituents in Delaware, as I heard earlier today at an event at Westside Health: Why is this Senate in session now in the midst of a nationwide pandemic, focusing on rushing through a nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court rather than doing everything we can to work across the aisle to craft a solution to the problems, the crises facing our Nation--tens of millions of Americans unemployed, hundreds of thousands of businesses permanently closed? There are schools all over the country that are either not yet open or are just barely open, and thousands upon thousands of Americans have died alone, in pain, uncomforted by family and uncertain of how they came to be in this place, uncared-for by their country. There have been 8\1/2\ million infected and 220,000 or more who are dead. We are in the middle of a tragic pandemic and a recession made worse by our President's bungled mishandling of that pandemic, and instead of coming together and providing the relief that all of our States and all of our people are calling for, we are doing this. We are doing this. Instead, my Republican colleagues are walking over a dangerous precipice. They are doing something that was, according to Chairman Graham of the Senate Judiciary Committee, unthinkable just 2 years ago.…”