Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this bill because we should be here tonight focused on real priorities of the American people, and that should be number one. Reopening our schools now. Mr. Speaker, we should be focused on helping our small businesses, who are dying on the vine. Mr. Speaker, we should be focused on helping put more vaccination shots in the arms of Americans. Unfortunately, that is not what this bill does. You are talking about over a trillion dollars that is still available from previous bipartisan bills that is out there. {time} 0000 There are tens of billions of dollars to reopen schools that are available today that are not being used. We had amendments to say, any new money in this bill for schools is tied to reopening schools. Do you know that every Democrat voted against that amendment? In fact, if you look at some of the spending in this bill that has nothing to do with COVID, $350 billion to bail out failed states. California gets over $40 billion in this bill when they just announced they had a $10 billion surplus. In fact, California is going to be getting a subway for the bay area--$112 million. Mr. Speaker, I say we defund BART and give that money to those students right now who are being held back from going to school, who have mental health issues. That is what Mrs. Hinson's amendment will do. Mr. Speaker, the motion to recommit actually focuses on helping kids. We are holding our kids back.…”