Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to this partisan bill that is not focused on helping families and small businesses. Everybody in this Chamber knows that this bill is going nowhere because they didn't even work with Republicans to try to draft a proposal that could actually address the needs of families who are struggling. There is a bill already filed at the door right over there, a bill that would help every small business, renew the Paycheck Protection Program using existing money--there are $138 billion frozen in an account that we unlock with Chabot's bill. Congressman Chabot has a bill with a discharge petition that would actually, in a bipartisan way, help small businesses go for a second round of Paycheck Protection funding. And what do we get? Do we get today a bill that was brought together by both sides to solve this problem? No, we don't. We have a bill that was drawn up basically using the old-failed roadmap of the original Heroes Act. Now they had the Heroes Act passed in a partisan way--it was never going to go anywhere--months ago. Did they say, okay, let's work with Republicans? Let's work with the President? No, they didn't. They said, Okay, we want to present a scaled-down bill. Mr. Speaker, when they scaled the bill down, did they cut the billions of dollars of funding to illegal immigrants that was in the original Heroes Act? No, they didn't.…”