Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motions to reconsider be laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate, and any statements printed in the Record. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The resolution (S. Res. 473) was agreed to. The preamble was agreed to. The resolution, with its preamble, reads as follows: S. Res. 473 Whereas polio is a highly infectious disease that primarily affects children and for which there is no known cure; Whereas polio can leave survivors permanently disabled from muscle paralysis of the limbs and occasionally leads to a particularly difficult death through the paralysis of respiratory muscles; Whereas polio was once one of the most dreaded diseases in the United States, killing thousands annually in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and leaving thousands more with permanent disability, including the 32nd President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Whereas severe polio outbreaks in the 1940s and 1950s caused panic in the United States, as parents kept children indoors, public health officials quarantined infected individuals, and the Federal Government restricted commerce and travel; Whereas 1952 was the peak of the polio epidemic in the United States, with more than 57,000 people affected, 21,000 of whom were paralyzed and 3,000 of whom died; Whereas safe and effective polio vaccines, including the Inactivated Polio Vaccine (comm…”