Political Quotes

“late last night the news flash was: Senator McConnell, Republican leader of the U.S. Senate, opposes COVID-19 relief bill and informs the White House. Supposedly, it was a statement made by Senator McConnell at his Republican lunch yesterday, and it was later confirmed by four Republican Senators who attended that that is what occurred. Finally, it becomes public one of the things that has been suspected for a long time on this side of the aisle. You see, most of us have been paying close attention to the speeches by Senator McConnell to try to gauge his interest in really coming back to help the American people. We remember on March 26, when 96 to 0--96 to 0--the Senate voted for COVID relief in what was known as the CARES Act. It was a bipartisan measure responding to a national pandemic that was just starting to surface and an economy that was just starting to collapse. Many people thought at the time that that would be the end of our journey, that we would do what is necessary, and put it behind us. And so the unemployment assistance, for example, ended on July 31 of this year. The PPP--the Paycheck Protect Program--ended in the middle of August. We were wrong. The pandemic got dramatically worse, and the economy slumped even further. Millions more were out of work. Thousands were dying. More were infected. And we still are in a terrible battle now against this deadly virus. So the obvious solution was for Congress to come back and help again.…”