Mitch McConnell actually said...

"If I’m still the majority leader of the Senate, think of me as the Grim Reaper. None of that stuff is going to pass, none of it."

"They were counting on this terrible, but temporary pandemic to be their Trojan horse for permanent socialism."

"Our full consideration of this bill must not be choked off by any artificial timetable that our Democratic colleagues may have penciled out for political purposes."

"This is an extremely important bipartisan bill. To try to truncate an amendment process on something of this magnitude I think is a mistake."