Political Quotes

“Madam President, I know we have yet another UC request coming, and I want to give time for that to my colleague here in the Senate. I, too, appreciate working with the Senator from Ohio, and we worked in a bipartisan fashion when we put the first CARES Act on the floor, which, as you said, got a unanimous vote. I am hopeful we can do that again. I just want to respond to one thing, and that is it is constantly being said that Senator McConnell said there is not a sense of urgency. This was months and months and months ago before our first act had even had an opportunity to play out. But the urgency that you have seen from Senator McConnell and others today is reflective of the refusal or the inability--let me say the inability of both sides to come together on a deal. And his reaching out multiple times--most recently a few hours ago today--and I am hopeful that we will reach out again and give all of our Senate colleagues the opportunity to simply proceed to get a bill on the floor that we can work on. I totally disagree with the argument that what we have been trying to get--a $500 billion bill--I can't even remember the negative comments that were made at the time, the type of descriptive comments that were made about it. It is a very real, significant piece of legislation that itself can be enhanced. It could be enhanced with this rental assistance that we are talking about right now.…”