Political Quotes

“if you want to know what is wrong with Washington, take a snapshot of this day. Take a snapshot of where we stand at this moment. In the midst of the worst health crisis in American history in 100 years and in the midst of the worst economic setback in 75 years, we have reached the point in the U.S. Senate where we are going to adjourn until next week, leaving in doubt whether 30 million unemployed Americans will continue to receive support from the Federal Government. How have we reached this point? Well, in anticipation of this moment, 10 weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed a rescue package that not only addressed unemployment benefits but a score of other major concerns we have at this moment in our history and at this moment in our economy--10 weeks ago. Since then, the burden has been on the Republican leader in the U.S. Senate, Senator McConnell, of Kentucky, to pick up the challenge and to produce his own approach, whatever it may be, representing his caucus-- the Republican caucus--on what to do with the economy and what to do with the pandemic. We stand today, preparing to leave for 3 or 4 days, with nothing--nothing. The situation is so bad that an individual Republican Senator decided to come to the floor and see if he could fix it. I disagree with his approach completely, but I respect the fact that he is as frustrated as we all are waiting on Senator McConnell to come forward.…”