Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I rise today on behalf of the people who are struggling and feel abandoned by their government during this crisis. I rise in solidarity with every parent who has struggled to buy diapers and formula, every family behind on rent or crushed by the grief of an empty chair at the kitchen table. Our people are crying out, sick, tired, hungry, and broken. The people we have taken an oath to serve and protect need direct cash to survive the winter. We must send them survival checks immediately. Some of my colleagues are patting themselves on the back for sending corporations payouts--corporations, by the way, that have profited off of people during this pandemic--and shaming families on the edge. Shame on them for their theatrics and their callousness. 450 pennies a day for the last 9 months, that is what our government has sent the American people to weather this crisis, and nothing for the immigrant families who drive our essential workforce. It didn't have to be this way. Our families deserve direct cash, real survival checks. Madam Speaker, $600 is hardly sufficient. It is an insult. We must act to save lives now. The pandemic has not discriminated in its hardship, but it would seem compassion and empathy have. ____________________”