Political Quotes

“if you went across America and just picked a random person and said ``Did you know the Senate is in session this weekend?'' they, of course, wouldn't know. You would say to them ``Well, why do you think the Senate is in this rare 5-day session?'' and they would say, I am sure, ``Well, of course they are in a rare 5- day session. We are in the midst of a deadly pandemic.'' You would guess that would be the answer of most Americans. Why would they say that? Well, I know why they would say it in Illinois--because the coronavirus in Illinois has spiked to a newly confirmed daily COVID-19 State record as of yesterday, and 63 more deaths have been reported. Our positivity rate is over 6 percent now, and the Governor and mayor are taking steps that they didn't want to take but have no choice. They are closing restaurants and bars and imposing a curfew on the city of Chicago. You can imagine how they feel as more and more infections come rolling in and more and more people are dying. We have had almost 9,600 deaths so far in Illinois and, as we know, nationwide, over 225,000 deaths. But don't believe for a second that this is a big-city problem because the New York Times reports this morning in its edition the names of the 50 counties across America with the worst per capita outbreaks of COVID virus with fewer than 10,000 people in the county. Senator Thune was here earlier.…”